Antofagasta plc announced that the Board of the company has appointed María Eugenia Parot as an Independent Non-Executive Director with immediate effect. Ms. Parot has over 35 years of experience working for leading engineering and consulting companies providing services to the larger mining projects in Latin America in the areas of environment, sustainability and mine waste management. For the last 15 years she worked with Canada-based global firm Golder Associates ("Golder"), retiring as Vice President of Latin America in February 2020, a position she held for four years, having previously been Regional President for South America for six years and Managing Director in Chile for two years before that. Ms Parot has a degree in Civil Biochemical Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and accreditation as an Environmental Auditor from CDG (Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft).