Simon Thompson (born 16 June 1959) is a British investment banker and business executive.
[1] He graduated from University College, Oxford, where he earned a bachelor's degree in geology in 1985.
[1][2] Thompson worked for Lloyds Bank from 1981 to 1985, N M Rothschild & Sons from 1985 to 1994, and S. G. Warburg & Co. from 1994 to 1995.
[5] He also served on the board of Amec Foster Wheeler from 2009 to 2015, and Sandvik from 2014 2015.
[4][5] In 2020, under Thompson's chairmanship, Rio Tinto destroyed a 46,000-year-old significant Aboriginal site at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia.