Lorenzo Sousa Debarbieri

Lorenzo Sousa Debarbieri (born May 16, 1960) 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.

Lorenzo Sousa Debarbieri
Born (1960-05-16) May 16, 1960
Lima, Peru
Alma materPepperdine University
Harvard University
OccupationEconomist, writer and entrepreneur.
Known forPresident of PeruRail
President of Peru Belmond Hotel
President of Ferrocarril Trasandino
Founding Partner and Former Chairman of Lan Perú
Shareholder and Director of Banco de comercio and Director of Tele 2000
Parent(s)Lorenzo Sousa Castañeda
Nancy Debarbieri Mantero

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 (PAD) 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 (ARLA 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 (sold to Bellsouth and now Telefónica [Spain]). 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.==Peru Rail==Peru Belmond Hotels

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 OEH S.A.)/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.

Conde Nast Traveler - Readers Choice Awards 2019

Lorenzo Sousa received The Readers Choice Awards 2019 - Top Trains. 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[1], and selected their chioces in diffetrent categories. For the Top Trains category, the results are:

  1. Belmond Andean Explorer, South America 97.00
  2. Golden Eagle Danube Express, Europe 94.58
  3. The Ghan, Australia 93.09
  4. Rocky Mountaineer, North America 92.39
  5. Belmond Hiram Bingham, South America 91.69
  6. Belmond Royal Scotsman, Europe 91.65
  7. Belmond British Pullman, Europe 91.61
  8. Rovos Rail, Africa 90.79
  9. Palace on Wheels, India 90.29
  10. Venice Simplon - Orient-Express, Europe 90.00

Entrepreneurship

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 Miami 2013 SIME

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

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References
  1. "2019 Results". Condé Nast Traveler. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
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