Orlando Leiva

Head of Strategic Planning, Anglo American

Orlando is a Mine Engineer from Universidad de La Serena (Chile), with more than 30 years of experience in open pit mining, as much in planning, operations and project development.  In the engineering area he has been able to acquire solid knowledge and practice of strategic, long and short term planning, mine design and scheduling, budgeting and cost control, geotechnical investigations, studies of mine fleet requirements, optimization of operational parameters and inclusion of ESG factors in mine design. In the area of operations, he has developed abilities in the handling of interpersonal relationships, team building and personnel´s performance management, besides the capacity to deliver production according to mine plans aligned with the values and policies of my employer.  In project development, Orlando has been exposed to deal with the most important engineering companies, different stakeholder expectations and environmental regulations to construct new mine operations or expansions in different countries in South America, Australasia and USA.