ILAIS Visiting Scholars

2023: 

Rene Mariaca, PhD - Universidad Católica Boliviana 

Short Biography

Rene Ivan Mariaca Daza has a B.S. in Management from the Catholic University of Bolivia and earned a Master's degree in Marketing from Complutense University of Madrid and a Master's in Higher Education Management from University of Alcala de Henares, also of Madrid. 

Since 2005, he has been serving at the Catholic University of Bolivia as a researcher and professor. He has been Head of the Department of Management and its acting Dean. 

Since 2017, Dr. Mariaca is in charge of the National Coordination at his institution, reporting to the President of the University and coordinating 14 units spread over 5 jurisdictions, urban and rural (with 3700 undergrad students; over 60 undergraduate and graduate programs).

Area of Research

Dr. Mariaca focuses his work on management, climate change, environmental issues, economic and social growth. He served as a consultant for the Bolivian Government, local municipalities and for different NGOs, always centering his work on sustainability.

Work at ILAIS

Through the position as a Visiting Scholar with our Institute for Latin American and Iberian Studies (ILAIS), Dr. Mariaca explored different aspects of “sustainability and management”. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, he sought to collaborate with different Schools and Departments at our Catholic University of America, including Engineering, Business and Management, working with multiple counterparts to integrate knowledge from different fields into his research endeavors. Dr. Mariaca hopes to contribute to the idea of research in these topics, so the climate change variable could be considered in coming projects, locally and internationally. In that way, climate change will not be a factor of surprise and the development of projects will have the chance to plan their adaptation.