Daniel Jiménez Schuster is a civil industrial engineer who spent 28 years with New York- & Santiago-listed Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) based in Santiago, Chile. He was the vice president of sales of lithium, iodine and industrial chemicals where he formulated the commercial strategy and marketing of SQM’s industrial products and was responsible for over US$900 million worth of estimated sales in 2018. He joined the company in 1991 and had also held regional commercial responsibilities for Europe, Africa and Asia based in Belgium. Since leaving SQM in late 2018, Mr Schuster has been a consultant to the lithium industry focusing on market intelligence, forecasting and lithium business strategy.