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Roberto Dañino is a Peruvian attorney who currently serves as deputy chairman of Hochschild Mining PLC, a gold and silver producer listed in London, and chairman of Fosfatos del Pacífico, listed in Lima.

He also serves as independent director in the boards of various corporations and non-profits in Peru, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. He has practiced as an international corporate lawyer for more than 30 years, most recently as a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering LLP, now Wilmer Hale LLP, where he headed the Latin American Practice. In the public sector, he served as prime minister of Peru, ambassador of Peru to the United States and, early in his career, as secretary general of economy, finance and trade. In the multilateral world, he was the founding general counsel of the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), the private sector affiliate of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC.

He later served as senior vice president and general counsel of the World Bank Group and as secretary general of ICSID, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the Catholic University of Peru. He is married to Pauline Beck, and they have four sons.