Mrs. Merino is an Industrial Engineer with a degree from the Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica de Chile and holds a Master in Business Administration degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She joined the Company in 1991, and after a two-year period at MIT, she re-joined the Company in 1998 as Nitrates Operations Manager. In the same year she became Finance and Administration Manager of SQM Nitratos S.A. and later on, in 1999, Corporate Services Manager. She left the Company at the end of April 2007. |