A Mining Engineer from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a graduate of IESE’s Senior Management Programme, Javier Targhetta is currently Chairman of the Board of Atlantic Copper and Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Freeport-McMoRan Inc., with responsibility for the group’s global copper concentrate sales.
Throughout his career, he has held senior management positions in the metallurgy, engineering and maritime transport sectors. He served as Managing Director of Ruiz de Velasco and as Chairman of Empresa Nacional Elcano and Compañía Trasatlántica Española.
In 1990, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Copper, which became part of Freeport-McMoRan in 1993, and he has remained at the helm of the company ever since. In April 2025, he became Chairman of its Board of Directors.
He has also held senior positions in national and international industry organisations, including AEGE, Eurometaux and the European Copper Institute. He is currently Vice President-Commissioner of PT Smelting in Indonesia, Chairman of Primigea and an ad honorem professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
He has served on the boards of numerous companies and speaks English, German, French and Italian, in addition to Spanish.
