Marie-Pierre Paquin

Marie-Pierre Paquin

Rio Tinto, Chief Advisor, Office of the Chief Scientist

Marie-Pierre is a metallurgical engineer with over 20 years experience in process development, operation/maintenance, project study and strategy. Across her various roles in the business, Marie-Pierre has been exposed to most stage of a mining business, from project development, to operation and to closure, gaining a holistic view of the business. Most recently at Rio Tinto, Marie-Pierre has provided technical and strategic guidance to develop the decarbonization roadmap across the different product group. Recent work includes new net-zero process design, asset re-powering and long duration energy storage technologies. Marie-Pierre is also part of the Venture team supporting investment in new technologies aligned with the business challenges.