Rio Tinto's political chair seeks top miner to major in operations
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|May 25, 2025
A striking photograph hangs in Dominic Barton's office in the St James's Square HQ of Rio Tinto. It shows him entering the vast, imposing Great Hall of the People in Beijing to present his credentials as Canada's ambassador.
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The portrait conveys a sense of the scale and power of China, but also that the former McKinsey boss has entered the inner sanctum of one of the world's great powers and survived to tell the tale.
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