Hernan Garrido-Lecca

Date of Birth: 18th of May, 1960

Home Country: Peru

AIESEC RECORDS
:: Local Committee President 1977-1979
:: National Committee President 1980-1981

ACHIEVEMENTS
Mr. Garrido-Lecca founded LC Arequipa and re-founded LC Universidad de Pacifico. He broke the national record of exchange numbers three years consecutively at the local and national level. He proposed, presented and got voted and approved the Theme of the Year in 1980 in the Chicago International Congress. Represented AIESEC Brazil and AIESEC Venezuela in the Killarney (Ireland) Presidents Meeting in 1981.

Hernan Garrido-Lecca completed his undergraduate studies in Peru and post-graduate studies at Harvard (MPA) and MIT (MS in Science and Technology Policy). Years later, he completed a Masters in Literature at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima and became a Doctor in Administration Candidate at the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain).

He became the CEO of Peru"s third largest bank (200 branches and 3000 employees) at the age of 25 years, after which he became the negotiator of Peru"s US$ 19 billion foreign debt and later started working for the IFC (World Bank) between 1989 and 1992. He then resigned and returned to Peru in the midst of terrorism acts and founded a very successful investment banking services boutique: NorAndina. He later sold his company and went on an early retirement at the age of 40.

Mr. Garrido-Lecca conducted several nationwide radio- and TV shows concerning economics and politics. One of his TV shows was shut down during President A. Fujimori's authoritarian administration.

Mr. Garrido-Lecca has been awarded with National Inventors Prize in 1997, Gold Medal in 25th Salon International des Inventions (Geneve, 1977), Silver Medal in 27th Salon International des Inventions (Geneve, 1999). In 1997 he founded Peruvian Society of Inventors. In 1999 he licensed his "One-by-one ice cube tray" to Oxo (a wholly-owned company of 1 billion sales General Houseware). The product is being successfully marketed worldwide with a note in the package: "Invented in Peru". Part of the proceeds from royalties is donated to the Peruvian Society of Invertors.

He led the first Social Responsibility audit ever carried out for a large project in Peru at Cia Minera Antamina (a US$ 2 billion investment in a copper mine). He currently leads an NGO Econatura providing financial and environmental advice to small businesses and coops mostly owned by workers themselves.

Mr. Garrido-Lecca founded the Peruvian Association of Consumers and Users (ACYU) in 1989 and became one of the leaders of the consumers" rights movement in Peru. In April 1998 he led the nation-wide "telephone strike" (no use of phones for one day and the threat to repeat it monthly) against the monopoly of telephone services in Peru. Two months later the government and the telephone company agreed to open the market for competition.

Retired in 2001, he is devoted to non-profit organizations and children"s literature. Mr. Garrido-Lecca published at least 5 children"s books before retirement and 4 more books since then, and the fifth one is to be released soon. He has been awarded several national and international literary awards. One of his books was adapted for theater and premiered in May 2003. He is currently funding a network to promote children"s reading program nation-wide and producing an animated film based on one of his children's stories.