Our Leadership

Ian McIntosh

Chief Executive Officer

Ian McIntosh is Chief Executive Officer for Louis Dreyfus Company. A British national, he joined the Group in 1986 as a Junior Trader in London. Ian led the UK Grains desk from 1989 to 1991, when he moved to Paris to trade global Feedgrains, and then to Melbourne to lead our Australasian Grain activities. Returning to London in 1993 as a Sugar Trader, he was appointed Global Head of Sugar in 1996 to lead the platform’s global integration and expansion. Between 1999 and 2006, Ian also managed our global Coffee, Cocoa, Rice, Ethanol and Grains activities, supervised the Group’s integration of a Metals business, and contributed to the re-organization that led to the creation of LDC’s current structure. In 2008 he left LDC to set up Edesia Asset Management as part of the Louis Dreyfus Group, serving as CEO and CIO until its closure in 2018, when he was appointed to his most recent role as Chief Strategy Officer. Ian holds a degree in Biological Sciences from Leeds University, UK.