Charlie Lenegan, currently president director of PT Kelian Equatorial Mining (KEM) in Indonesia, will replace Horwood effective March 8, 2004.
Horwood originally joined the Rio Tinto Group in 1969 and held a number of senior management positions in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the UK, including managing director of Dampier Salt and of Pacific Coal.
He was appointed managing director of Rio Tinto Australia in 2001. He will continue as chairman of Coal & Allied Industries Limited (Rio Tinto 75.7 per cent) and Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (Rio Tinto 68.4 per cent).
Lenegan joined the Group in 1981. He has worked in a variety of roles in Argyle Diamonds, Kaltim Prima Coal, Dampier Salt and Pacific Coal, and on feasibility projects in Zimbabwe.
He was appointed president director of Kelian Equatorial Mining in 2001. He holds a BSc Economics from the University of London and is a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
