Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BOLIVIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

E. Hugo Siles-Alvarado, the new Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Siles-Alvarado, a scientist by training, worked with VARIAN Medical Systems from 2004 to 2005 and was a physics instructor with the Las Vegas Education Department in the United States.  From February to October 2004 he was a professor of basic science at the Catholic University in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Between 1982 and 2003, he was engaged in the field of medical physics in Bolivia, Ecuador and the United States, working in such fields as radiation therapy and radiological protection.  He also taught physics and numerical analysis at various Bolivian universities, beginning in 1973 at the University of San Andres in La Paz.

Mr. Siles-Alvarado received a Master of Science degree from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, in 1975, having done his undergraduate studies at the Universidad de San Andres in La Paz; Macalester College, Minnesota; and the University of Minnesota in the United States.

He is married and has three children.

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