Hugo Bague

Group executive, People and Organisation

MA (Linguistics), age 49.

Skills and experience: Hugo Bague was appointed Group executive, People and Organisations in October 2009 having joined Rio Tinto as global head of Human Resources in 2007. Previously he worked for six years for Hewlett-Packard where he was the global vice president Human Resources for the Technology Solutions Group, based in the US. Prior to this he worked for Compaq Computers, Nortel Networks and Abbott Laboratories based in Switzerland, France and Germany.

External appointments (current and recent):
Member of the Advisory Council of United Business Institutes in Brussels, Belgium since 1995