Lorenzo Sousa Debarbieri is a businessman and author from Lima, who oversees one of the Peru's largest privately held tourism and railway company Peru Belmond Hotels PeruRail and Ferrocarril Transandino.
Early life
Lorenzo was born at Lima Peru to Lorenzo Sousa Castaneda and Nancy Debarbieri Mantero. He is the great-grandson of General Lorenzo Iglesias Pino e Arce. Lorenzo Sousa:Economist, graduated from Pepperdine University, California, with an MBA from the Arthur D. Little Management Education Institute at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A, followed postgraduate studies at the Advanced Management Program of the University of Piura, Lima, Peru, and the Advanced Management Postgraduate Program at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston; He has also followed a number of studies and congresses in the areas of Banking, Investment and Finance. Including also Singularity University a technology program sponsored by NASA and Google. Started his work life as an executive at Citibank-Lima, where he was Finance Manager and Financial Control Manager. He also held the position of Citicorp Investment Manager in the Investment Banking area at Citibank-Lima, and with the Arab Latin American Bank he was the head of Macro Economics for Latin America. He was a Director and shareholder of the Banco de Comercio and of the telecommunications company Celular 2000. He was founding shareholder and the first chairman of the board of the Arequipa Stock Exchange, and a Director of the Lima Stock Exchange.
LAN Peru S.A.
He was founding shareholder and chairman of the board of directors of LAN Perú S.A., a joint venture airline with Lan Chile; and Director and shareholder of Peru Hydro a company that developed two hydroelectric projects along with Statkraft from Norway. Founding member of Peru Holding de Turismo, a tourism company focused on real estate development and listed on the Lima Stock Exchange. Founder and chairman of Peruval SAB, the most important stock brokerage house during the 90s economic boom in Peru. Also he has been the Bankers Trust representative for Peru; ; and founding member of the Harvard Alumni Association of Peru.Currently:President of PERU ORIENT EXPRESS HOTELS /PERU BELMOND HOTELS; chairman of the board of PERU RAIL S.A. a subsidiary company of the Peruval Group; founder of PERUVAL CORP S.A.; chairman of the board of directors of FERROCARRIL TRANSANDINO and KEY HOLDING CORP; and President of the MACHU PICCHU FOUNDATION.
Lorenzo Sousa received . Condenast Traveler readers rated and selected the Belmond Andean Explorer, South America as the best train in the world. A total of 600,000 registered voters weighed in for the 32nd annual Readers Choice Awards, and selected their chioces in diffetrent categories. For the Top Trains category, the results are:
Lorenzo Sousa have been honorary consul of Brazil in the South region of Peru, in 1990 Lorenzo was a representative of the Bankers Trust Company in Peru, in 1994 launched the first Country Fund of Peru, Peru Country fund and launch the first issuance of a real estate fund listed on the Lima Stock Exchange and Tele 2000, in 2013 it has promoted the technology fair
Books
He has also published numerous books and articles on economics, entrepreneurship, business, sociology, investment banking, etc. Among them is "El Capital Ausente" which he co-authored and is considered one of the best 65 Peruvian books in the last 500-year by the National Library of Peru and Banca de Inversion en el Peru, and "The Iron Horse of Machu Picchu"; Mi Viaje por los Emprendimientos 1985–2015, also he was mentioned on James B. Sherwood's book "The Orient Express". www.worldcat.org/title/banca-de-inversion-en-el.../654372548
Personal life
His interests include, protecting tropical forests,innovation,social inclusion, and accelerating startups. He enjoys traveling, flying small aircraft and ocean cruising
