User:Pedro Alvear Otero/sandbox

Pedro Arturo Alvear Otero was born in Lima, Peru on March 30,1958. His father was Pedro Elías Alvear Ramos, a reputable executive in the insurance business of Peru and Colombia. He worked most of his life for multinational Italian insurance giant R.A.S. (Reunion Adriatica de Sicurta). His mother, María Graciela Otero Aicardi, was born in the port of Casma in Peru.

Pedro Alvear studied Business Administration at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia and obtained a Masters degree in Business and Finance from the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.

Mr. Alvear married Claudia Rosa Mayser Gildemeister who gave birth to his daughter, Elna Marie Alvear Mayser.

Mr. Alvear is a renowned banker, consultant and entrepreneur. He has worked for top commercial banks across Latin America and founded Globokas Peru S.A.C., the first agnostic network of correspondent bank agents in Peru. The network was instrumental in significantly extending the reach of commercial banks across the nation, greatly contributing to increase financial inclusion of the rural poor.

His entrepreneurial spirit has led him to explore and develop business start-ups in Canada, India and the United Arab Emirates.