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Key insights from our Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm鈥檚 Melbourne Mining Club discussion


Last updated: 14 August 2023

 

Jakob Stausholm, Rio Tinto鈥檚 Chief Executive Officer, spoke with from the , at the Melbourne Mining Club.

Here are some key insights from their discussion:

On learning from history and past leaders

鈥淭here's so much to learn. If you lose your history, you kind of impair your future. You have got so much strength from the past.鈥

On China鈥檚 economy

鈥淢any of us, including myself, have spent two weeks in China working at steel manufacturers and China has not wasted time during COVID the productivity improvement, the applications of technologies are massively impressive.鈥

On decarbonising our business

鈥淲e are both a mining and a processing company and 80% of our Scope 1 and 2 emissions are actually in processing 鈥 so the key thing is to solve the emissions and processing and we're making huge technological breakthroughs.鈥

Connecting with communities

鈥淲e as a company, in our desire to become more efficient, became a little bit too inward looking and perhaps forgot that if you want to be successful long term in mining you have to work inside the gate and outside the gate. And we needed to put more focus on outside the gate.鈥

On 糖心vlog入口as a technology company

鈥淔undamentally 糖心vlog入口is a technology company鈥 one of the first things I did was re-establish a chief scientist office where we're really bringing a lot of technological innovation.鈥

On leadership

鈥淭here's one thing I'm relentless about it's about that people must work on their own development鈥here's nothing more dangerous if you stop that curiosity, you're not standing still, you're going backwards鈥ou must do everything you can to be the best of yourself.鈥

Reflecting on 150 years of Rio Tinto

鈥淚t鈥檚 a tall order to just extract one key strength, but I think I would call it adaptability. That ability to adjust and accept that the world is changing.鈥

The Melbourne Mining Club, 2023

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