Roque Eduardo Benavides Ganoza (born August 20, 1954) is a Peruvian engineer, businessman, and mining magnate, who is the chairman and former CEO of Compañía de Minas Buenaventura.
[2] A leading businessman in the mining sector, Benavides is considered one of the most powerful Peruvian entrepreneurs, and has a net worth of US$2 billion as of March 2013, making him the fifth-wealthiest person in Peru.
On the maternal side, he is the grand nephew of Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the founder of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance and the Peruvian Aprista Party.
[15] Following the completion of his undergraduate studies, Benavides started his professional career in 1977 at the Compañía de Minas Buenaventura, the family company founded by his father, Alberto, in 1953.
Aside from Buenaventura, Benavides serves as member of the Board of Directors of Sociedad Minera El Brocal S.A.A., the Credit Bank of Peru, and Unión Andina de Cementos S.A.A.
With all this, they are the main local actors in a sector led by foreign miners such as Barrick, Grupo México (SPCC), the holding company that owns the Antamina mine, and Glencore-Xstrata, among others.