José Ramiro Suárez Soruco

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José Ramiro Suárez Soruco (born in Cochabamba, Bolivia on 19 March 1939) 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, a range of companies and national governments. Since 1988 is Academic of the Bolivian National Academy of Sciences.

A widely published researcher, Suarez is an expert on paleozoic biostratigraphy, invertebrate paleontology, national parks and 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 was an assistant of Biostratigraphy and Paleontology I in the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1969 was a Professor of Zoology in the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés; in 1970, educational investigator of OAS of the University of Santiago of Chile. Between 1976 and 1980 it 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 of the Universidad Católica Boliviana of Cochabamba.