RHI Magnesita has appointed Jacqueline Knox, currently Associate General Counsel M&A at VEON, an international telecommunications and technology business, as EVP General Legal Counsel & Company Secretary at RHI Magnesita, effective 1 December 2018.

Jacqueline will be based in Vienna and be part of the EMT. "This organisational change within our top leadership team will ensure we are well positioned for the future," says Stefan Borgas, CEO of RHI Magnesita.

Jacqueline was previously general counsel and company secretary at Ophir Energy plc, a FTSE-listed upstream oil and gas business with a large portfolio of assets across Africa and Asia which she helped to take from a private company to a London listing.