Laurence Golborne Riveros, Minister of Mining

Mr. Golborne graduated from the Instituto Nacional high school in Santiago and he received his Industrial Civil Engineering degree from the Universidad Católica de Chile, obtaining the achievement of Best Graduate granted by the Chilean Engineers Association. Afterwards he underwent Business administration studies at Northwestern and Stanford Universities in the United States of America.

Mr. Golborne has longstanding professional experience in the private sector, prominent among which was his term as the CEO of the Cencosud group until 2009, where he led the expansion of this retail conglomerate that currently operates in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Colombia. Mr. Golborne was member of the board of directors of several companies and was also a member of the Advisory Board at the Havas Media Group for Chile, Peru and Bolivia.

Among his activities, he acted as director of the Audax Italiano Sporting Club, the San Agustín Foundation of the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Católica de Chile, and was also director on the board of ICARE, a private nonprofit institution that encourages business excellence in Chile.

Mr. Golborne was born in Santiago, he is 48 years old, married and the father of six children.