Place of birth: Sucre, Bolivia

Date of birth: July 23rd, 1947

Family status: Married

Home address: Alto Seguencoma, Calle 4, No. 400

Phone (+591 2)750879, Fax (+591 2)751930

Postal address: P.O. Box 5125

La Paz, Bolivia

E-mail: diazmeav@ceibo.entelnet.bo

xavierdiazt@yahoo.com
 
 

September, 1976.
 
 

- Universidad de Chile:

Licensed in Commercial Engineering

October, 1974
 
 

- Post Graduate Studies in Project Design and Evaluation

International Executive Center, American Business Institute

U.S.A., August, 1978
 
 

- Post Graduate Studies in Harbor Administration and Sea Operations

Higher Institute of Maritime Transport

Tokyo, Japan; July to November, 1986
 
 

- Sales Management

Confederación de Empresarios Privados de Bolivia (Confederation of

Private Entrepreneurs), La Paz

August, 1976
 
 

- Administrative Decision Making System Integration

Economists College

La Paz, August, 1981
 
 
 
 

- International Commerce Management

PL Project 47/14 UNCTAD GATT

La Paz, December, 1981
 
 

- Design and Development of Exportation Projects

OAS, CICOM, ISAP

La Paz, April, 1983
 
 

- Publicity as a Marketing Tool

Argentinean Institute of Commercial Research

La Paz, July, 1986
 
 

- Introduction to Computer Operation and the D.O.S. System

Universidad Catolica Bolviana

La Paz, April, 1989
 
 

- Computer Word Processing, Office Writer, Word Perfect 5.0 and 5.1,

Advanced Class for Word, Excel and Quattro

Universidad Catolica Boliviana

La Paz, July, 1989
 
 

- Management of Management Level Computer Projects

Price Waterhouse

La Paz, March, 1991
 
 

SEMINARS
 
 

- International Commerce

Centro de Estudios Empresariales (Center of Entrepreneurial Studies)

CEDES-UNIAPAC, La Paz

September, 1977
 
 

- International Costs, Prices and Pricing

Organization of American States CICOM

Santiago, Chile; October, 1979
 
 

- National Seminar of General Preference Systems and Other Commercial

Laws

UNCTAD

La Paz, March, 1987
 
 

- International Maritime Transport

United Nations, CEPAL

La Paz, August, 1988
 
 

- Symposium on the Application of Law 1008 for the Control of Imports

of Controlled Chemical Substances

Interior Minister

La Paz, October, 1990
 
 

- Second Seminar/Workshop of Multiple Transport Modes

Summit of the Cartagena Agreement, Transport Minister

La Paz, August, 1991

Director (Government Appointee). Control and Monitoring of economic

policy, external debt, money supply; Control and evaluation of

foreign resources; Monetary Policy

October, 1983 to August 1985
 
 

ECONOMIC AND PLANNING COUNCIL, La Paz

Consultant on monetary policy and external debt

September, 1983 to August, 1985
 
 

BOLIVIAN NAVIGATION LINES (S.A.M.), La Paz

Chief, Marketing Department. Promotion of maritime transport

Services, determination of potential for maritime importing and

Exporting, commercial relations with the maritime sector, statistic

computing, external commerce, determination of potential for non-

traditional exports
 
 

Traffic and Operations Coordinator. Supervision of agencies’

reports, determination of unsatisfied areas and markets, coordination

of line services, ship charting for massive shipments, project making

for new trading, evaluation of port services, representation before

maritime conferences, creation and supervision of subsidiaries

providing other modes of transportation. (LINAMAR and Naviera Suares

Arana S.A.)

March, 1984 to September, 1993
 
 

BOLIVIAN SENATE, La Paz

Assessor, Commission for the Economic Development of Transportation

and Communications

August, 1992 to August, 1997
 
 

MINISTRY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, La Paz

Director of the Office of International Relations. Responsible for

control and monitoring of programs in accord with international

organizations and allied countries. Coordination among Cabinets

August, 1994 to September, 1995
 
 

BOLIVIAN NAVIGATION COMPANY S.A. (EMBONA)

Marketing and Operations Manager. Cargo generation for export

through Arica and Ilo, ship contracts, control of maritime agencies,

route development, port authority negotiations, land transport to

Bolivian interior, control and monitoring of port policies. Ship and

gasoline costs, stowage and route plans, port operations.

October, 1995 to October, 1997.
 
 

MILITARY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

School of Commercial Engineering

Professor of Foreign Trade

January, 1997 to present
 
 

ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES INSTITUTE

Guest professor of Foreign Trade

Lecturer of Maritime Commerce and Trade
 
 

BOLIVIAN INSTITUTE OF NORMALIZATION AND QUALITY

Member, National Technical Committee for the elaboration of

international norms regarding interior navigation, custom quality

stamp system, and basic technical requirements.
 
 

CHAMBER OF TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF LA PAZ

General manager. Representative before national and foreign

authorities; participation in entrepreneurial and governmental forums

not only regarding transportation but also economics, customs and

labor; provision de frameworks and benchmarks for actions by

transportation companies; policies of the Director and coordination

with other entrepreneurial guilds.

November, 1997 to November 1998
 
 

CUSTOMS CHAMBER, DEPARTMENT OF LA PAZ

General manager. Representative before national and foreign

authorities; participation in entrepreneurial and governmental forums
 
 

not only regarding transportation but also economics, customs and

labor; provision de frameworks and benchmarks for actions by

transportation companies; policies of the Director and coordination

with other entrepreneurial guilds.

November 1998 to present.

Washington D.C., U.S.A. 1984.
 
 

Title member of the Comité Legal y de Arbitraje Marítimo

de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Armadores (Committee of Maritime

Laws and Arbitration of the Latin American Association of Shippers).

June, 1985 to July, 1992.
 
 

Director, Bolivian appointee, of La Asociación Latinoamericana de

Armadores (Latin American Association of Shippers).

September, 1985 to September, 1993.
 
 

Representative, Bolivian Navigation Lines (S.A.M.) to the First

Bi-Oceanic Entrepreneurial Meeting, Iquique, Chile.

August, 1986.
 
 

Participant, First Working Meeting for the Entrepreneurial

Integration of the Paraguay-Parana Waterway between Puerto Quijarro

(Bol.) and Nueva Palmira (Uruguay), March, 1989.
 
 

Director, Bolivian appointee, Permanent Commission of Transportation

for the River Plate Basin.

April, 1989 to April, 1993.
 
 

Presenter, "El Transporte Marítimo en Bolivia" ("Maritime Transport

In Bolivia") in the entrepreneurial congress of the South American

Company of Bolivian Steamships and Navigation Lines.

La Paz, October, 1989. Director, Chamber of Bolivian-Brazilian

Commerce

March, 1990 to September, 1993.
 
 

Presenter, "La Navegación por la Hidrovia a través del Canal

Tamengo" ("Navigation in the Waterway through the Tamengo Channel")

in the First Working Meetings on the Paraguay-Parana Waterway.

Corrientes, Argentina, April, 1990.
 
 

Invited lecturer, First International Congress of Off-Shore Banks,

Duty-Free Zones and Waterways.

Montevideo, Uruguay. April, 1990.
 
 
 
 

Representative observer of the Asociación Latinoamericana

de Armadores (Latin American Association of Shippers) before the XXV

Regular Assembly of ARPEL (Latin American Reciprocal State Petroleum

Assistance)

La Paz, Bolivia. May, 1990.
 
 

Bolivian delegate, Symposium on Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the

Paraguay-Paraná Waterway.

Sao Paolo, Brazil, October, 1990.
 
 

Representative of the Bolivian Navigational Lines S.A.M., Conference

of Shippers of the Intergovernmental Coordination Committee of

Countries in the River Plate Basin
 
 

Bolivian delegate, Third Regular Meeting of the Andean Committee of

Aquatic Transport Authorities.

Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia. April, 1991.
 
 

Bolivian delegate, Second Working Days on Paraguay-Parana Waterway

Integration, Instituto Latinoamericano, Special consultant of

waterway users.

Corumbá, Brazil, April, 1991.
 
 

Bolivian delegate, First Extraordinary Meeting of the Andean

Committee of Aquatic Transport Authorities.

Lima, Peru. September, 1991.
 
 

Delegate, Permanent Commission of Transport on the Paraguay-Parana

Waterway to the Working Meeting on Bettering the Navigability of the

Paraguay-Parana Waterway

Santa Cruz, Bolivia, December, 1991.
 
 

Lecturer, First Seminar "Papel del Sector Privado en la

Reestructuración de los Puertos Estatales" ("Role of the Private

Sector in the Restructuring of State Ports") in accord with the

Cartagena Accord, Economic Commission for Latin America.

La Paz Bolivia, April, 1992.
 
 

Representative, Bolivian Transportation Entrepreneurs, to the XXII

Meeting of Transportation Ministers of the Andean Community and to

the VI Meeting of Transportation Ministers of the Southern Cone.

April 23-25, 1999.
 
 

Business sector representative, to the Colloquium on the Social and

Labor Consequences of the Technological Evolution, the Deregulation

and the Privatization of Transportation (International Labor Office)

Geneva, Switzerland.

September 20-24, 1999.
 
 
 
 

Publications
 
 

Marítimo" ("Bolivia and Maritime Transport")
 
 

- Revista Criterio: "Hidrovía Paraguay-Paraná, una

alternativa real para Bolivia" ("The Paraguay-Parana Waterway, a

real alternative for Bolivia").
 
 

- Folha de San Pablo: "Linabol Expande Linea al Brasil,

bolsa de Estudio y Planes Fluviales" ("Linabol Expands Line to

Brazil, Study Funds and River Navigation Plans")
 
 

- El País, Montevideo: "Se iniciará servicio fluvial entre

Bolivia y Nueva Palmira" ("There will be river transport between

Bolivia and Nueva Palmira").
 
 

- La Patria (Oruro, Bol.), La Voz del Sur (Tarija, Bol.), Correo del

Sur (Sucre, Bol.); "Bolivia en los Mares del Mundo" ("Bolivia in

the Seas of the World").
 
 

- La Razón, La Paz, Bolivia "La Flota Mercante Boliviana" ("The

Bolivian Merchant Fleet")
 
 

- Presencia, La Paz, Bolivia "Marina Mercante Nacional, una

necesidad" ("National Merchant Marines, a necessity")
 
 

- Presencia, La Paz, Bolivia "Marina Mercante Nacional"

("National Merchant Marines"
 
 

- Presencia, La Paz, Bolivia "A Propósito del Costo de

Mediterraneidad" ("Concerning the Cost of Being Landlocked")