Fernando Rodriguez has 20 years of experience leading environmental, safety and health strategies in the mining sector and most recently has started providing advisory services in the industry.

His trajectory has been at Barrick Gold Corporation, in different regional and corporate positions, including a role back in 2014 as Interim Corporate Environmental Vice-President for Barrick Gold Corp in Toronto.  Fernando has led the implementation of improvement plans, providing support and follow up to operations and projects in Papua New Guinea, Australia, United States, Canada, Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Chile, and Peru.

Among his main contributions, stands out his leadership role in the development of “Environmental Improvement Plans” focused on risk management and critical controls, which allowed to obtain improvements of approximately 20% in environmental performance and to develop “Health and Safety Management Processes” that reduced incident rates of more than 65%.

Along his professional career has demonstrated a high interest and focus on several technical aspects, leading multi-functional work teams such as hydrology, biodiversity and geochemistry. Fernando has also designed, implemented and followed up EHS management systems, innovative technology programs for EHS controls, especially on water quality.

Fernando earns a Metallurgical Engineer Degree from the University of Lima, an Environmental Science master’s degree from the Colorado School of Mines and a Mining Management Diploma Course from Adolfo Ibanez University.