Speakers

He is currently CEO/President of Global Business Consultants (GBC) an outsourcing consulting firm specialized in Latin American oil business, particularly in the areas of E&P, Downstream, Planning, Negotiations and, Business Environment, position he has held since 2003. He worked for Pdvsa and its affiliates for 20 years. In 1983 he joined the oil industry as Head of the International Energy Policies at Maraven, one of the former affiliates of Petróleos de Venezuela. And since 1992 he worked at the Strategic Planning Department of PDVSA as a Senior Advisor in International Energy and Politics until 2003.

From 1989 to 1992 he was part-time advisor in International Negotiations to the President of the Republic of Venezuela.

He is Full Professor at Arboleda University Master Energy Program (Bogota, Colombia); at IESA (Caracas, Venezuela) in the Hydrocarbon Program as well at Master level; Doctoral level at the School of Law and Political Science at Central University (Venezuela 1985-2020) and was also Professor at the Center for Development Studies (CENDES) of the same University. In his vast academic experience among the posts he had held was that of Director for the Master in Latin American Integration, at the Institute of Graduate Studies in Business Administration (IESA), in Caracas, Venezuela (1981-1983); and Associate Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois, in Urbana Campaign, USA (1984).

Alberto is an attorney by training, graduated at the National University of La Plata, Argentina, in 1971. He earned his master in Political Science at the same University in 1972 and his PhD in Political Science and International Relations at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, in 1977.