Speakers

Jakob joined Rio Tinto in September 2018 as Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer. He became Chief Executive in January 2021.

Jakob has worked globally in senior finance roles for more than 20 years. From 2012 until 2018, he worked for A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's largest shipping company. In 2008, Jakob moved back to his native Denmark as Group CFO of the global facility service provider ISS. Before that, he spent 19 years working for Shell across Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

From 2009 to 2016, Jakob served as a non-executive director of Statoil (now Equinor). He served as a non-executive director of Woodside Petroleum between 2006 and 2008.