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Argentina 2017

Maria Di Lello

Senior attorney | Vale - Potasio Río Colorado

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Maria Di Lello

Senior attorney | Vale - Potasio Río Colorado

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With over 16 years of experience as an in-house and lawyer and currently leading one of the major mining projects of the country, Maria Di Lello is at the forefront of the mining industry in Argentina in her capacity as a senior attorney at Vale’s Potasio Río Colorado project. Di Lello explains how she deals with ‘a variety of issues’ and having to ‘coordinate the work of an important number of professionals’, concentrating efforts in ‘improving the team work and the communication among the team’. Coordinating approximately 20 external lawyers on a day-to-day basis, Di Lello has had to help the company through difficult market circumstances that saw the temporary suspension of the Río Colorado project. She stresses that going about her role with ‘integrity, self-confidence, to work hard no matter the problems and always to be honest’ has been a sure-fire way to handle the complex workload. She also notes the importance of calculating the value brought to her organisation through the results and responses obtained via internal clients and paying attention to their opinions. Previous examples of her successful results are numerous. In a previous role at Duke Energy Di Lello implemented an “e-contract” tool that helped to increase efficiency with regards to contracts and communication between departments, in addition to introducing a procedure where employees could flag unsafe acts and conditions to their managers in order to implement an urgent plan or solution from legal. Keen to enjoy stability between her personal and professional life, Di Lello suggests that lawyers are intrinsically challenged by ‘finding balance between personal and professional life’.

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