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Michael Meding is Managing Director of McEwen Copper and has led the Los Azules copper project in San Juan, Argentina, since February 2022. In that time the project secured its environmental permit, completed its feasibility study, became the first copper project approved under Argentina's RIGI and closed a US$240 million term loan. He is president of GEMERA and was named Mining Entrepreneur of the Year in 2024 and 2025.

Michael Meding is a German mining executive and Managing Director of McEwen Copper. Since February 2022 he has led Los Azules in San Juan, Argentina, the 10th largest undeveloped copper porphyry in the world by total mineral resources. Under his leadership the project secured its environmental permit, completed a feasibility study, became the first copper project approved under Argentina's RIGI investment regime and closed a US$240 million term loan in 2026, with Stellantis and Rio Tinto's Nuton as strategic shareholders. He came to mining from corporate finance: PwC and Novartis in Switzerland, CFO roles in Chile and Argentina, then Barrick Gold, as CFO of its Argentine operations, and Trafigura. He is president of GEMERA and vice president of CAEM, and was named Mining Entrepreneur of the Year in 2024 and 2025. He holds a BSc from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and MBAs from HHL Leipzig and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.