Alberto Benavides de la Quintana (October 20, 1920 – February 12, 2014)[1] was prominent Peruvian businessman and engineer, famous for founding the "Buenaventura Mining Company".

Benavides concluded his primary and secondary education at the Colegio de la Inmaculada of Lima, in 1936.

He was awarded a scholarship by the Cerro de Pasco Corporation for a master's degree in geology at Harvard University.

After eleven years, the Cerro de Pasco Corporation named him chief executive officer of the company, and seven years later he left this position and accepted the invitation of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru to organize the Mining Section of the Faculty of Sciences and Engineering.

Between 1953 and 1964 and from 1971 to 2001, he served as General Manager of Buenaventura, which became the first Latin American mining company to be listed in the New York Stock Exchange, since 1996.