Eduardo Hochschild
Lima, Peru
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Tufts University
Peru
Hochschild Mining PLC
mining
$1,300,000,000
1717
#1717 Billionaires 2019
Eduardo Hochschild is chairman of the Hochschild Group, a Peru-based mining and industrial group.Eduardo joined the business, which his great uncle had started, as a mine safety assistant in 1987; he was appointed head of the mining group in 1998.Today, Hochschild chairs both Hochschild Mining and Cementos Pacasmayo, which makes cement and other construction materials.Based in Lima, Hochschild Mining trades on the London Stock Exchange and operates gold and silver mines in Peru, Chile and Argentina.Cementos Pacasmayo trades on the Peruvian stock exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange, where it listed its shares in February 2012.
His great uncle, Moritz Hochschild, who started the company in 1911, is called the 'Bolivian Oskar Schindler' for helping 9,000 European Jews come to S. America.In 1998 Hochschild survived an attack by a gunman that claimed the life of his father Luis. Hochschild was kidnapped by the attackers, but released six days later.
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