22 Notable alumni of
National University of Engineering, Peru
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The National University of Engineering, Peru is 1354th in the world, 54th in Latin America, and 5th in Peru by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 22 notable alumni from the National University of Engineering, Peru sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Martín Vizcarra
- Enrolled in the National University of Engineering, Peru
- 1979-1984 studied civil engineering
- Occupations
- civil engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo OSP CYC GColIH is a Peruvian engineer and politician who served as President of Peru from 2018 to 2020. Vizcarra previously served as Governor of the Department of Moquegua (2011–2014), First Vice President of Peru (2016–2018), Minister of Transport and Communications of Peru (2016–2017), and Ambassador of Peru to Canada (2017–2018), with the latter three during the presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
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Francisco Sagasti
- Enrolled in the National University of Engineering, Peru
- 1961-1966 studied industrial engineering
- Occupations
- industrial engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler is a Peruvian engineer, academic, politician, and author who served as the president of Peru from November 2020 to July 2021.
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Fernando Belaúnde Terry
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- university teacherarchitectpolitician
- Biography
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Fernando Sergio Marcelo Marcos Belaúnde Terry was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru (1963–1968 and 1980–1985). Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected in 1980 after twelve years of military rule.
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Susana Higuchi
- Occupations
- civil engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Susana Shizuko Higuchi Miyagawa was a Peruvian politician and engineer. She served as First Lady of Peru from 1990 to 1994 as the wife of President Alberto Fujimori. In 1994, she described her husband as a corrupt tyrant and divorced him in 1995.
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Manuel Prado Ugarteche
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- bankeruniversity teacherpoliticianmathematiciancivil engineer
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Manuel Carlos Prado y Ugarteche was a Peruvian politician and banker who served twice as president of Peru. Son of former President Mariano Ignacio Prado, he was born in Lima and served as the nation's 43rd (1939–1945) and 46th (1956–1962) president. His brother, Leoncio Prado Gutiérrez, was a military hero who died in 1883, six years before Manuel Prado was born.
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Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne
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- basketball playerCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne is a Peruvian Catholic who served as Archbishop of Lima from 1999 to 2019. He has been a bishop since 1988 and was made a cardinal in 2001.
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Fernando de Szyszlo
- Occupations
- painterartist
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Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar was a Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru.
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Barton Zwiebach
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Barton Zwiebach is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Federico Villarreal
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- mathematicianphysicistEsperantistpolitician
- Biography
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Federico Villarreal Villarreal was a Peruvian scientist, engineer and politician.
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Máximo San Román
- Occupations
- mechanical engineerengineerbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Máximo San Román Cáceres is a Peruvian mechanical engineer, businessman and former politician. He was President of Peru between 1992 and 1993, a term that was marked by the authoritarian government of Alberto Fujimori. Considered the legal Head of State during Fujimori's ruling by decree of his self-coup, he did not hold real power.
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Modesto Montoya
- Occupations
- university teachernuclear physicistpolitician
- Biography
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Modesto Montoya is a nuclear physicist and former president of the Peruvian Institute for Nuclear Energy in Lima, Peru. He is a former president and current member of the Peruvian Academy of Nuclear Sciences, former president of the Peruvian Physical Society and member for Peruvian National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he became an advisor to President Pedro Castillo on science matters. He served as minister of the environment of Peru.
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Salomón Lerner Ghitis
- Occupations
- engineerbusinesspersonpolitician
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Salomón Lerner Ghitis, also known as Siomi Lerner is a Peruvian businessman and politician, who was the Prime Minister of Peru from 28 July to 10 December 2011 and leader of the political movement Citizens for Change (CxC). He was appointed prime minister following the 2011 general election which was won by Ollanta Humala. Lerner resigned on 10 December 2011.
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Henri Ciriani
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Enrique Ciriani was a Peruvian architect and teacher.
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Allan Wagner
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- diplomatlawyerpolitician
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Allan Wagner or Edward Allan Wagner-Tizón is a Peruvian diplomat who has served three times as his country's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1990, 2002 to 2003, and also in 2021. He also served as Peru's Minister of Defense from 2006 to 2007.
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Miguel Romero Sotelo
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Miguel Eugenio Romero Sotelo is a Peruvian architect and politician, who served as the mayor of Lima from May 2022 to January 2023. He joined the Popular Action party in 2014.
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Albina Ruiz
- Occupations
- engineerenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Albina Ruiz Ríos is a Peruvian environmentalist, social activist and social entrepreneur who served as the minister of environment of Peru from 10 December 2022 until 13 February 2024.
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René Cornejo
- Occupations
- electrical engineermechanical engineerpolitician
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René Cornejo Diaz is a Peruvian politician who was Prime Minister of Peru from February to July 2014, following the resignation of César Villanueva. He resigned after a political scandal that involved his office. He was replaced by the Minister of Labor Ana Jara.
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Humberto Lay
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
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Pastor Humberto Lay Sun is a Peruvian evangelical minister, architect, and politician belonging to the National Restoration Party. He is of Chinese descent. He studied at the Colegio San Andrés (Anglo-Peruvian School). He was also a commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that investigated abuses by the Shining Path, Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, and the Military of Peru during the 1980s and 1990s. He was a Congressman representing Lima for the 2011–2016 term.
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Gonzalo García Núñez
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- economistbusinesspersonpolitician
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Gonzalo García Núñez was a Peruvian industrial engineer from the Peruvian National University of Engineering Lima (1968), a graduate of the French centre of economics programs (CEPE), and the holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Grenoble University. He was a professor, banker, entrepreneur, economist and politician. García Núñez was a full professor of macroeconomics and industrial organisation at the Peruvian University of Engineering, an elected General Secretary, President of the chapter of industrial and economics engineers, President of the Society of Professors of the University of Engineering, secretary and chairman of the faculty of systems engineers and President of the national engineer institution of Peru, the Colegio de Ingenieros del Perú. With the Izquierda Unida party in 1983, he was elected Councillor of Lima, reelected in 1986 and was a candidate for the upper house of the Congress in 1990, under the Izquierda Socialista, but he was unsuccessful. He was an opponent of former President Alberto Fujimori in the Foro Democrático NGO. He was elected Central Bank director by an absolute majority of the Peruvian Congress in 2001. A member of "Justice and Liberty", he was invited by Ollanta Humala, the candidate of the Peruvian Nationalist Party and he ran as Humala's first Vice President during the 2006 national election in the coalition between Union for Peru and the Peruvian Nationalist Party. The ticket won in the first round of voting with 30.6% of the total vote but lost in the second round (47.4%). García Núñez was responsible for the large government planning team on the ticket, and was editor of the plan named The Great Transformation, in honour of Karl Polanyi.
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Eduardo Orrego Villacorta
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
- Biography
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Eduardo Orrego Villacorta, was a Peruvian architect and politician in the early 1980s.
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Rosa Galvez
- Occupations
- engineerenvironmental consultantuniversity teacherpolitician
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The Honourable Rosa Galvez is a Canadian Senator representing Québec (Bedford) and an expert in pollution and its effects on human health. She was appointed to the Senate on December 6, 2016.
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Wenceslao Sarmiento
- Enrolled in the National University of Engineering, Peru
- In 1946 studied architectural engineering
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Wenceslao Alfonso Sarmiento, also known as W.A. Sarmiento, was a Peruvian-born American modernist architect.
