Simone Niven

Simone Niven

Simone Niven is global head of corporate communications for the diversified and multinational mining and resources group RioTinto, a position she took up earlier this year. Prior to that, she was head of internal communications at Vodafone UK. She began her career in communications in 1993 as a communications officer at the Grains Research and Development Corporation. A graduate of the University of Canberra, Australia, she has lived and worked in Sydney and London.

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