Eva Arias

She currently serves as Executive Chair of the Board of Directors of Compañía Minera Poderosa. She is also a Director at Compañía Minera San Ignacio de Morococha, Chair of the Board of Directors of Asociación Pataz, and a Director and Member of the Advisory Board of the National Society of Mining, Petroleum, and Energy (SNMPE). Additionally, she is the Second Vice Chair and a Board Member of UNI's Board of Trustees (ProUNI), a member of the Business Advisory Council of the International Foundation for La Libertad (FIL), and an Advisory Council Member for the Mining Management Engineering Program at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). She also participates in the Mining Advisory Council of the PAD-CARD School of Management at Universidad de Piura, and the Regional Committee for Business, Government, Academia, and Civil Society (CREEAS). She is a founding member of Businesspeople for Integrity (ExI), an honorary member of the Society of Engineers of Peru (SIP) and Women in Mining Peru (WIM), and a member of the International Women's Forum (IWF), Women Corporate Directors (WCD), and the Advisory Council of the Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Peru (AMEP), among others.

She has been Director of the Peruvian Institute of Mining Engineers (IIMP) (2018-2020), President of the Inter-American Mining Society (SIM) (2014-2016), President of the SNMPE (2013-2015), Director of the Confederation of Private Business Institutions (CONFIEP) (2013 -2015), President of the Mining Sector Committee and Vice President of the SNMPE (2011-2013), Alternate Director of CONFIEP (2011-2013 and 2015-2017), member of the Latin American Business Council - CEAL (2013-2017), among others.

Forbes magazine listed her among the 50 Most Powerful Women in Peru (June 2025). She has received several other honors, including: being recognized by CONFIEP in the Large Company category on International Women's Day (2021); being named in Women in Mining UK’s WIM100, a list of 100 inspiring women in global mining (2020); receiving the Woman, Business and Leadership in Ibero-America award from the Business Council Alliance for Ibero-America (CEAPI) (2019); the Women Entrepreneurs of Peru (AMEP) awarded her the “Women Who Inspire: Protagonists of Change 2019” honor; the newspaper El Comercio and EY named her Business Leader of Change 2016 (LEC); the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI) awarded her an Honorary Doctorate (2014); the UNI Faculty of Architecture presented her with the Habich Torch (2013); and the La Libertad Chamber of Commerce and Production recognized her as Businesswoman of the Year (2013), among others.   

She has also served as President of the XIV National Mining Congress – CONAMIN (2023), PERUMIN 33 (2017), EXPOMINA Peru (2016), the 11th International Gold and Silver Symposium (2013), and the III International Congress of Women in Mining – WAAIME (2004).