Attorney | ENAMI – Empresa Nacional de Minería
Javiera Estrada
Attorney | ENAMI – Empresa Nacional de Minería
I am a lawyer from the University of Chile and hold a Master of Laws (LLM) from UC, with a specialisation in regulatory law. I began my career in the public sector, in various executive and strategic management positions.
I joined the mining industry in 2011, in the Gabriela Mistral division, becoming the first woman in Codelco’s history to hold the position of prosecutor for an operating division. I continued my career at Ministro Hales during its start-up phase, leading the legal strategy for claims that had a high impact on the company’s critical risks. I then joined Codelco as a senior corporate lawyer, also serving as director of the corporation’s subsidiaries.
In the private sector, I created and directed the public law and ethics and compliance departments at Quinzio Abogados.
Since mid-2023, I have been the attorney for the National Mining Company, also as the first woman to hold this position. At ENAMI, I have faced the most important challenges of my professional career, being responsible for defining and implementing the legal alternatives that enabled the continuity and key needs of the business.
I had the opportunity to lead strategic asset negotiation processes that enabled the company to reverse a complex financial situation. I was in charge of designing and executing the measures that enabled ENAMI to comply with the owner’s mandate in the National Lithium Strategy. In that space, I had the opportunity to design an unprecedented process to search for an international partner and was in charge of defining the model and negotiating the public-private partnership between ENAMI and the world’s second-largest mining company to develop the Salares Altoandinos lithium project. Another significant achievement within the framework of the Strategy was the negotiation and conclusion with the State of the first special lithium operating contract.
I am also the compliance officer at ENAMI, where I have been tasked with implementing a new crime prevention model in accordance with the high standards imposed by the economic crimes law and participating in the drafting of a new corporate governance bill for the company, which raises and updates its governance standards and is currently being processed by the National Congress.
Finally, I am a member of the board of directors of Metro, during its most challenging period in terms of new lines and modernisation of its network, a member of the audit and risk committee and of the board of directors of Metro Pago, an unprecedented expansion in the company’s history, in the market for means of payment with provision of funds, making the decisions that will enable it to start operations in the near future.