Gonzalo Guerrero Y. Chairman of the Board and Member of the Safety, Health and Environment CommitteeNon-Independent Board member. Mr. Guerrero earned a law degree from the Universidad de Chile and a Master of Business Law from the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He was General Counsel and substitute Board member of Integramédica S.A. for more than seven years and was a Director of Inversiones Oro Blanco S.A., Asfaltos Chilenos S.A., VNT S.A. (Vantrust Capital Asset Management) and SMA Clinica Internacional S.A. (Perú), among others. Currently, he is Chairman of the Board of SQM Salar S.A., Delegate Counsel of SONAMI, Chairman of the Board of Maria Elena Foundation for Social and Patrimonial Development, Board director of ICARE, elective counsel of SOFOFA, Chairman of SOFOFA Chile/Australia business council and Board director of SOFOFA HUB. More information
Patricio Contesse F.
Vice President and Member of the Corporate Governance Committee and the Safety, Health and Environment CommitteeIndependent director per the definition of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Contesse is a lawyer with a degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an Executive MBA from IMD in Switzerland. Previously, he also served as a member of the board of directors of SQM from 2013 to 2015. Additionally, he was a member of the board of Invercap S.A. during 2019 until 2022, and director and vice chairman of Norte Grande S.A. and subsidiaries from 2011 until April 2024. More information
Hernán Büchi B.
Director and Member of the Directors’ Committee and Corporate Governance CommitteeIndependent Director per the definition of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Büchi earned a degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad de Chile. He served on the SQM Board of Directors for several years until April 2016, before rejoining in 2017. Mr. Büchi is currently a Board member of Quiñenco S.A. and S.A.C.I. Falabella, among others. He also chairs the management council at Universidad del Desarrollo.
!--:es-->Director Independiente bajo los requerimientos de la New York Stock Exchange. El señor Büchi es Ingeniero Civil de la Universidad de Chile. Se desempeñó en el directorio de SQM durante varios años hasta abril de 2016, previo a volver a incorporarse en 2017. Actualmente es miembro del directorio de Quiñenco S.A., entre otros. También es presidente del Consejo de Administración de la Universidad del Desarrollo. More information
Ashley Luke Ozols
DirectorIndependent Director per the definition of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Ozols earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, Sydney and is also a CFA charterholder. He has over 20 years of international business experience providing strategic, financial and advisory services to American, Australian and Asian based clients. Between 2003 and 2017, he worked at several investment banks, including Macquarie Group, Grant Samuel, and CLSA. Between 2017 and beginning his role as a board member at SQM in 2021, he worked at Tianqi Lithium as an executive focused on corporate development. More information
Antonio Gil Nievas
Director and Member of the Directors’ CommitteeIndependent Director per the definition of the New York Stock Exchange and Chilean Corporations law. Mr. Gil holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from ICAI (Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain), an MBA from Harvard Business School and he also completed the Stanford Executive Program. He has more than 25 years of experience in strategic leadership, risk management, financial and investment roles at global European and Latin American companies. He is currently board member at Latam Airlines Group. Previously, he was CEO of Moneda Asset Management, Vice President of ACAFI, Managing Director, worldwide CFO and member of the global executive committees of several large global businesses at JPMorgan and was strategic consultant for BCG in Spain. More information
Gina Ocqueteau Tacchini
Director and Member of the Directors’ CommitteeIndependent Director per the definition of the New York Stock Exchange and Chilean Corporations law. Ms. Ocqueteau graduated as a nurse from the Universidad de Chile, holds an MBA from ESADE Business School and have more than 30 years of career in different areas of ACHS. She is currently the director of the Asia Pacific Chamber of Commerce and Fundación Marca Chile, counselor of Chile Mujeres, teacher of BOW Mujeres Empresarias, co-founder of Unión Emprendedora, founding partner of Crosscheck and CEO of Waygroup Chile. Throughout her professional career, she has accumulated extensive experience in risk management, security, and cybersecurity. Previously, she was also the director of ASECH and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality in 2021. More information
Georges De Bourguignon Arndt
Georges de Bourguignon A. Director and Member of the Corporate Governance CommitteeIndependent Director per the definition of the New York Stock Exchange. Director. Mr. de Bourguignon is an economist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with an MBA from Harvard University. In the academic field, he has been a professor of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, while, in the business world, he is co-founder and currently Chairman of Asset Chile S.A., a corporate finance advisory firm, and of Asset AGF, an investment fund administration firm. He also serves as a director in various companies, including Vivo Spa, where he has been Chairman since August 2022, in Tánica S.A., since May 2017 and Embotelladora Andina since 2016. He was a director of SQM (2019 - April 2022), Empresas La Polar S.A. (2011-2015), Sal Lobos S.A (2006-2018) and Chairman of the Committee of Directors of Latam Airlines Group (2012-2019). More information
Xu Tieying
Director and Member of the Corporate Governance CommitteeIndependent Director per the definition of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Xu holds a law degree from Heilongjiang University, a master’s degree in law from Jilin University, and a doctorate degree in law from Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy, where he studied at the Centro di Studi Giuridici Latinoamericani of the Università. He is a P.R. China Legal Professional Qualifications Certificate holder. Since 2015, he has been Distinguished Associate Researcher at the Sichuan University and Associate Professor since 2018, specializing in Civil and Commercial Law. He has also released several publications and books on Civil and Commercial Law. More information