José Ramiro Suárez Soruco

José Ramiro Suárez Soruco (born March 16, 1939 in Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a former Executive President of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos YPFB during the government of Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé.

He has held a range of leadership and research positions throughout the southern cone, working for YPFB, the Organization of American States, and a range of companies and national governments. Since 1988 he is a Member of the Bolivian National Academy of Sciences.

A widely published researcher, Suarez is an expert on paleozoic biostratigraphy, invertebrate paleontology, national parks, wild life sanctuaries, and paleoecology. Among other distinctions in 1997 he received the Robert Dott Memorial Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Between 1965 and 1968 Suarez was an assistant of Biostratigraphy and Paleontology I in the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1969 he was a Professor of Zoology in the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. In 1970 he was an educational investigator of OAS at the University of Santiago in Chile. Between 1976 and 1980 Suarez was a professor of Geology (GLG-99) in the Universidad Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra Bolivia; between 1978 and 1979 professor of Biology 116, and since 2000 occupied a professorship of Geology. (ECL-l11) in the Environment Engineering career at the Universidad Católica Boliviana in Cochabamba, Bolivia where he currently resides.

References

• AAPG Robert Dott Memorial Award
• Academia Nacional de Ciencias site (Spanish)
• Presidencia de Bolivia (Spanish)
• Fosibol Paleontologos en Bolivia (Spanish)
• FosiBol Contactos (Spanish)
• GeoTIMES 1997
• Freiberger Geologie (German)
• IFEA Fosiles and Facies de Bolivia (Spanish)
• NHBS Fosiles and Facies II
• UNESCO Comité Boliviano de Correlación Geológica
• Geoscientific Cooperation with Latinamerica
• Museo Alcides D'Orbingy (Spanish)
• Fundacion para las Ciencias (Spanish)

External links

• Official website (Spanish)