Mauricio González Sfeir
American management consultant
Mauricio González Sfeir (born 1956) is a former Secretary of Energy of Bolivia, former petroleum company executive and former president of the Bolivian professional football teams The Strongest and La Paz F.C. Gonzalez served as president of YPFB (Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos) and Secretary of Energy of Bolivia in the mid-1990s. He is a co-author of the Baker Institute's "Americas Project." He has also been involved in philanthropic activities with educational institutions, both in the United States and in Bolivia.
Early life and education
Gonzalez was born in 1956. His father was civil engineer, university dean and Amazon explorer Walter Gonzalez Gonzalez and his mother was librarian, bibliographer and academic journal editor Nelly Sfeir Gonzalez. He is the second of five brothers. Medical doctor and surgeon Fernando Gonzalez Sfeir is one of his brothers.
Gonzalez attended primary school in La Paz, Bolivia at the American Cooperative School of La Paz. One of his classmates was Eduardo Gamarra. During 1965-66, Tamara Bunke, also known as Tania the Guerrillera and a comrade in arms of Che Guevara, came to his home in the Zona Sur of La Paz to give him and his older brother Walter Ramiro private German language lessons. His family emigrated to the United States in 1967 during a time of political instability in Bolivia.
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