About

Guido M. Bocchio’s legal career commenced at the early age of 20 in a Lima-based law firm, with a focus on commercial and civil cases and lawsuits. Bocchio now has 36 years in the field with 22 years in leading teams in natural resources and water law. In 1995, Southern Peru Copper Corporation (SPCC) asked him to assume new legal roles until he was appointed to his current position of legal and natural resources manager in Lima, working for the company’s top management. This was a change from his professional experience as it not only included private enterprises but also public ones. Working in the areas of operation of a large-scale renowned mining company has been a thoroughly formative part of his career: ‘The importance of mining in the country made me value this activity as a real contributor to national development and with many possibilities for further growth and improvement’, Bocchio states. Due to his ‘honest work’ and overall experience he has gained, he has been able to strengthen the values of his collaborators – something that has been fundamental for his cohesive legal management strategy to achieve successful results and to reach set goals: ‘My management is a mixture of legal and technical effort as can be imagined by the name of the position. Thus, this approach of complex interdisciplinary work with legal basis has been positively evaluated by my superiors’, Bocchio adds. A very enriching milestone in his career was being the official spokesperson for the Tía María project, at the request of the executive president of SPCC. It was a unique public relations role that was very ‘delicate and challenging’ and where he learned a lot when the project was already in a critical situation due to negative social perception. ‘It was a period in which I acquired a lot of private and public experience in the development of important national projects under conflict, something unfortunately latent. When I remember that time I usually think of the saying “there are defeats that are worth victories”’, explains Bocchio.