Mauricio González Sfeir

Mauricio González Sfeir
Born1956 (age 69–70)
Alma materHarvard Business School
OccupationsPetroleum company executive and president of the Bolivian professional football team La Paz F.C.

Mauricio González Sfeir (born 1956) is a former Secretary of Energy of Bolivia, former petroleum company executive and former president of the Bolivian professional football teams The Strongest[1] and La Paz F.C.[2] Gonzalez served as president of YPFB (Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos) and Secretary of Energy of Bolivia in the mid-1990s. He is a co-author of the Baker Institute's "Americas Project." He has also been involved in philanthropic activities with educational institutions, both in the United States and in Bolivia.[3]

Gonzalez studied economics at DePaul University and Yale University and finance & management at Harvard Business School. He pursued post-graduate studies at Oxford University,[4] while on a Marshall Scholarship. Gonzalez worked as an international management consultant in the London office of The Boston Consulting Group.[5]

Gonzalez represented Bolivia in Junior Davis Cup tennis competition at the South American level,[6] taught tennis at the Welby Van Horn Tennis Camp, and played on the varsity tennis teams of DePaul University and Oxford University, where he earned two varsity Blue (university sport).[7] Together with Geoff Tabin, he initiated the Oxford tradition of tennis spring break trips to Spain. He is a past president of The Strongest football club,[8] a past president of the La Paz Football Association and a past vice-president of the Bolivian Football Federation (Federación Boliviana de Fútbol).

Gonzalez has promoted Bolivian football (soccer), including junior and women's divisions. He has advocated for the proposition that the Bolivia national team and Bolivian club teams should be allowed to play-official international matches—including World Cup qualifying games—in the high-altitude cities of La Paz, Oruro, and Potosi. He is a leading member of an ad hoc committee of prominent Bolivians formed to design a strategy to campaign against the FIFA altitude ban.

González is based in Bolivia and the United States.[9]

In La Paz, Bolivia, on 14 October 2024, celebrating the centenary of the birth of Walter Gonzalez Gonzalez, Gonzalez was the keynote speaker at the XXXIst Awards Ceremony for the Premio Ing. Walter Gonzalez a la Excelencia Academica at the UMSA (Universidad Mayor de San Andres).[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Mauricio Gonzalez Oficializa Su Candidatura" [Mauricio Gonzalez Makes Official His Candidacy]. Noticias Fides (in Spanish). La Paz, Bolivia. 22 July 1998. Retrieved 12 July 2025.,
  2. ↑ "El ascenso vertiginoso de La Paz FC". La Razón. La Paz. 5 December 2005. Archived from the original on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  3. ↑ "Entrega del trigesimo primer Premio a la Excelencia Academica Ing. Walter Gonzalez" [Award ceremony for the 31st Ing. Walter Gonzalez Prize for Academic Excellence]. El Diario newspaper (in Spanish). La Paz, Bolivia. 23 October 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
  4. ↑ "Mauricio Gonzalez-Sfeir – Cereus". Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  5. ↑ "Mauricio Gonzalez-Sfeir – Cereus". Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  6. ↑ "El Club de Tenis La Paz ya tiene su ladrillo en el "paseo de la fama" del Tenis Internacional" [The La Paz Tennis Club now has its brick on the "walk way of fame" at International Tennis Hall of Fame]. El Diario newspaper (in Spanish). La Paz, Bolivia. 22 August 2025. Mauricio Gonzalez Sfeir represento' a la Federacion Boliviana de Tenis en el Campeonato Juvenil Sudamericano de 1974 que se jugo' en el Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club de Montevideo, Uruguay. Junto con Rolando Sandy derrotaron a los equipos de Ecuador (con Ricardo Icaza), y Colombia (Colmenares y Gomez), antes de caer ante Argentina (Clerc y Dalla Fontana)
  7. ↑ "El Club de Tenis La Paz ya tiene su ladrillo en el "paseo de la fama" del Tenis Internacional" [The La Paz Tennis Club now has its brick on the "walk way of fame" at International Tennis Hall of Fame]. El Diario newspaper (in Spanish). La Paz, Bolivia. 22 August 2025. Mauricio fue de la seleccion de tenis de la Universidad de Oxford 1978-1980. Le otorgaron dos "varsity Blues". Un "Blue" es el maximo galardon deportivo otorgado a los estudiantes que han competido en un partido de la Serie Varsity. La Serie Varsity es una serie anual de competencias deportivas entre los equipos representativos de la Universidad de Oxford y la Universidad de Cambridge
  8. ↑ "Mauricio Gonzalez Oficializa Su Candidatura" [Mauricio Gonzalez Makes Official His Candidacy]. Noticias Fides (in Spanish). La Paz, Bolivia. 22 July 1998. Retrieved 12 July 2025.,
  9. ↑ "Mauricio Gonzalez-Sfeir – Cereus". Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  10. ↑ "Entrega del trigesimo primer Premio a la Excelencia Academica Ing. Walter Gonzalez" [Award ceremony for the 31st Ing. Walter Gonzalez Prize for Academic Excellence]. El Diario newspaper (in Spanish). La Paz, Bolivia. 23 October 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
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