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Raul Benavides Ganoza, Business Development Vice President. Mr Benavides has been our Business Development Vice President since 1992. He is also currently an alternate member of the Executive Committee of Yanacocha (1992-to date), board member of Cerro Verde and several of our related companies. From
1984 to 1996 he was Manager of the Orcopampa mine. Prior to that time, Mr Benavides was a Manager of Operations from 1983 to 1984 and Chief of Mining from 1980 to 1983 at Colquirrumi. Since 1995, he has been a professor of mining administration at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. Mr. Benavides also has served as Vice President of the Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas (Institute of Mining Engineering) since 1994 and was also the President of the Instituto de Seguridad Minera del Peru (Mining Safety Institute of Peru) from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Benavides was a member of the Consulting Board for the National Occupational Safety Association from 2003 to 2004. Mr. Benavides received a B.S. in Mining Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1980, an M.S. in Mineral Engineering-Management from Pennsylvania State University in 1984 and completed the Advanced Management Program at The Harvard Business School in 2001. | 