Roque Benavides

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Compañía de Minas Buenaventura since 2011, where he has worked since 1977.

He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a Master’s in Business Administration from Henley Business School, University of Reading, United Kingdom. He completed the Management Development Program at Harvard Business School, United States, and the Advanced Management Program at Templeton College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

He served as Dean of the Lima Departmental Council of the College of Engineers of Peru for the 2022–2024 term. 

He is a professor of the Management of Mining Companies course at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the Managerial Strategy course in the Master’s Program in Mining Management at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería. He actively participates in both national and international academic circles.