Alejandro Plaz

Alejandro Plaz
Ambassador of Venezuela to the Inter-American Development Bank
In office
28 August 2019 – 1 January 2023
Appointed byNational Assembly of Venezuela
PresidentJuan Guaidó
Personal details
Born
Alejandro Plaz Castillo

2 December 1955
Caracas, Venezuela
Alma materUniversidad Simón Bolívar
Known forCofounder of Súmate

Alejandro Plaz Castillo is a founder of the Venezuelan volunteer civil association, Súmate.

Plaz is a Venezuelan electrical engineer and management consultant who holds three master's degrees (two from Stanford University), and was a Senior partner for McKinsey & Company in Latin America, before taking a leave of absence to co-found Súmate with María Corina Machado.

Life and education

Plaz was born on 2 December 1955, in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended the Colegio de San Agustín, and graduated from high school at the Colegio La Salle La Colina. He graduated in 1977 with a degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. After working for two years, he left for the United States. He stayed there for four years, during which he graduated with a master's degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, a master's degree from Stanford University in industrial engineering, and a second master's degree from Stanford in operations research. He returned to Venezuela at the age of 26, where he took a job with the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 23 years.[1]

After working for 20 years with McKinsey, Plaz was offered a one-year sabbatical. He used this time to co-found Súmate, a Venezuelan civil organization that monitors elections. Not long after, he started devoting the majority of his time to it.[1]

Work with Súmate

Plaz states that Súmate is not a political organization, but rather a group of concerned professionals such as engineers and others with technical careers who want to see concrete results and effective democracy.[1]

Plaz and other members of Súmate were charged with treason and conspiracy for receiving a $31,000 grant from the National Endowment for Democracy which, according to the United States Department of State, was "aimed at strengthening citizen participation in the democratic, constitutional processes of their country".[2] The trial was suspended in February 2006 because of due process violations by the trial judge, and has been postponed several times.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Socorro, Milagros (2 May 2004). "Político no, ingeniero". El Nacional. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
  2. ^ Embassy of the United States, Venezuela (8 July 2005). "Súmate Trial Decision". Accessed 18 June 2006.
  3. ^ Human Rights Watch (September 2008). A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela (PDF), p. 218. Accessed 24 January 2010

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