Susana Vilca

Susana Vilca
Minister of Energy and Mines
In office
February 13, 2020 – July 15, 2020
PresidentMartín Vizcarra
Prime MinisterVicente Zeballos
Preceded byJuan Carlos Liu
Succeeded byRafael Belaúnde Llosa
Deputy Minister of Mines
In office
August 2, 2011 – January 20, 2012
PresidentOllanta Humala
Prime MinisterSalomón Lerner
Óscar Valdés
MinisterCarlos Herrera
Jorge Merino
Preceded byFernando Gala Soldevilla
Succeeded byGustavo Adolfo Luyo Velit
Member of Congress
In office
July 26, 2006 – July 25, 2011
ConstituencyPuno
Personal details
Born (1959-08-11) August 11, 1959 (age 65)
Lima, Peru
Nationality Peruvian
Political partyIndependent (2017-present)
Other political
affiliations
Peruvian Nationalist Party (2009–2017)
Popular Action (2004–2006)
Alma materNational University of the Altiplano of Puno (BS)
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionMining engineer

Susana Gladis Vilca Achata (born August 11, 1959) is a Peruvian politician and was a Congresswoman representing Puno for the 2006–2011 term. Vilca belonged to the Union for Peru party.[1]

Susana Gladis Vilca Achata is a mining engineer with a master's degree in Environmental Protection Technologies. She also has studies completed in the master's degree in Mining Management developed at Gerens Escuela de Postgrado.

She was elected Congresswoman of the Republic for the period 2006–2011, she also held the position of Vice Minister of Mines of the Ministry of Energy and Mines between the years 2011 and 2012, and was president of the board of directors of the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute (Ingemmet) between the years 2012 and 2016.[1][2]

She was also appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano and has served as vice-president of the Asociación de Servicios de Geología y Minería Iberoamericanos – ASGMI.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Susana Vilca Achata". www2.congreso.gob.pe. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  2. ^ a b "Susana Gladis Vilca Achata - Ministra de Energía y Minas". www.gob.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-09.