Patricio Barrios

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Patricio Barrios is a graduated from the University of Seville, Spain, where he earned degrees of BSc Chem., MSc Chem. Eng. and PhD in Chemistry. In addition, along his professional career, he completed his education in different institutions receiving a Dipl. Environmental Eng. at the Technical University of Madrid, Spain; Dipl. R&D Management CSIC (High Counsel Scientist Research) and a Dipl. in Business Administration by ESADE (Barcelona, Spain) and The International Social Science Council (Paris, France). In 1973, he took his first job at the Rio Tinto Patiño’s Smelter and Refinery in Huelva, Spain. Since then he successively took increasing managerial responsibilities being Production General Manager in 1986; Vice President Metallurgy & ExCom Member at Rio Tinto Metal in 1993 and in 1996, SVP Operations and ExCom Member at Atlantic Copper (former Rio Tinto Metal), affiliate to Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold; in 2006, Dr. Barrios was appointed VP Operations and ExCom Member of Cumerio taking full corporate responsibility for the operations and projects of the Cumerio Group and he served as Member of the Board of Directors of various subsidiaries of the Cumerio Group. In 2008, following the merging of Cumerio and Norddeutsche Affinerie, he was appointed SVP - Projects Primary Copper at the Aurubis AG. Since January 2016, Dr. Barrios is acting as Principal Adviser – Primary Copper Business Unit at Aurubis AG. Dr. Barrios is a fellow of a number of international professional societies and he has been a frequent speaker and presenter at conferences and symposia.