Gustavo Baquero is a

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

n engineer, professor and oil industry executive. S&P said he would be named by

Juan Guaidó Juan Gerardo Antonio Guaidó Márquez (born 28 July 1983) is a Venezuelan politician and opposition figure. He belonged to the social-democratic party Popular Will, and was a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of V ...

's administration to be president of

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(Venezuela's state-run petroleum company). Raised in Caracas in a family of doctors, Baquero did undergraduate studies at Venezuela's Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB) and graduate studies at

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. He has taught petroleum economics at UCAB and business management of hydrocarbons at IESA in Caracas. He was described by ''

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'' as an oil expert who would someday help rebuild Venezuela. Together with

Leopoldo López Leopoldo Eduardo López Mendoza (born 29 April 1971) is a Venezuelan opposition leader. López was elected mayor of the Chacao Municipality of Caracas in the 2000 Venezuelan regional elections, regional elections held in July 2000. He is the N ...

, he wrote ''Venezuela Energética''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baquero, Gustavo Living people People of the Crisis in Venezuela Year of birth missing (living people)