# Debbie Leyva

Interim Chief People Officer

## Career chronology

- **From 2019; date of interim appointment not independently confirmed: Newmont** — Interim chief people officer; formerly regional HR vice president South America. [Deborah Leyva executive profile](<https://www.executivewomanmedia.com/dwm/deborah-leyva/>) (Regional HR profile); [Newmont management biographies](<https://www.newmont.com/about-us/leadership/>) (Leyva current title)

- **Before Newmont; dates not established: Etihad Aviation and LATAM Airlines** — Human resources leadership. [Deborah Leyva executive profile](<https://www.executivewomanmedia.com/dwm/deborah-leyva/>) (Prior employers and qualifications)

## Education and qualifications

### Reported qualifications [leyva_education]

Issuer or professional biography · self reported · low materiality

Professional profile reports a business degree from Anáhuac University and an MBA from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; not independently verified.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Qualifications are reported by the cited issuer or profile and were not independently verified.

**Relevance:** Relevant professional background.

[Deborah Leyva executive profile](<https://www.executivewomanmedia.com/dwm/deborah-leyva/>) (Named-person qualifications)

## Suitability for the current role

### Relevant professional experience [leyva_career]

Career and current appointment · analyst inference · low materiality

Newmont identifies Leyva as interim chief people officer; a professional profile states she joined its South American human-resources team in 2019.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Listed roles are documented by cited sources; assessment of their relevance is analytical, and individual performance is not established solely by holding office.

**Relevance:** Provides context for the current executive role.

[Deborah Leyva executive profile](<https://www.executivewomanmedia.com/dwm/deborah-leyva/>) (Regional HR profile); [Newmont management biographies](<https://www.newmont.com/about-us/leadership/>) (Leyva current title)

## Evidence gaps

- Full former-employer outcomes and precise tenure were not independently established.

- Independent verification of education, professional memberships and credentials is incomplete.

- Court, regulator and adverse-media searches are a limited public-source screen and do not establish absence of other matters.

- The date the interim people-officer role began and appointment of a permanent successor were not independently established; current issuer biography is undated.

- One broad combined named-person search was reused for multiple topic logs; separate comprehensive career, education, success, failure, fraud, safety, environment, legal and governance searches were not performed.