Leonardo Contreras Lerdo de Tejada

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Southern Copper Corporation, appointed by the Board effective 23 April 2026 following the unexpected passing of Oscar Gonzalez Rocha. Joined Americas Mining Corporation (AMC, the company's controlling shareholder) in Sep 2018, rising through President of ASARCO (2019), Director for Commercial and Supply Chain of AMC (2019), President of IMMSA (2020), CFO of AMC (2022), and General Director of Americas (2024). Before AMC, founded and ran Murano Capital, a private investment vehicle, from Sep 2015; before that, spent almost five years at Nexxus Capital in private and public equity and debt transactions. BS in Industrial Engineering (Universidad Anahuac), MBA (University of Chicago Booth). Son-in-law of German Larrea Mota-Velasco.