Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. announced that the new Board of Directors held an ordinary meeting on May 18, 2016. and, after accepting their positions, resolved the following: to designate Mr. Eugenio Ponce L. as Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Company and Mr. Edward; Waitzer as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the company; to designate Messrs. Hans Dieter Linneberg A., Julio Rebolledo D. and Edward J. Waitzer as members of the Directors' Committee and the Audit Committee of SQM; to designate Mrs. Joanne L. Boyes and Messrs. Gonzalo Guerrero Y. and Arnfinn F. Prugger as members of the Health, Safety and Environment Committee of SQM; to designate Messrs. Robert A. Kirkpatrick, Hans Dieter Linneberg A. and Edward J. Waitzer as members of the Corporate Governance Committee of SQM.