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Name: Ramiro Jordan
Company: IFEES
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Ramiro Jordán was born in Bolivia, South America and studied his postgraduate at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata in Argentina from where he obtained the title of Electrical Engineer. In 1987 he received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering at the Kansas State University. Since then, he joined the select team of professors and researchers at the University of New Mexico, which houses the most prestigious schools of Engineering in the United States. He has centered his activities of research in software engineering, digital processing of signs and images, communications network, microprocessors and microcontrollers. In 1990, after he made an investigation regarding the future of the Science and the Technology in Latin America and after meeting with representatives of several universities and industry of the private sector, he created ISTEC (Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium), of which he is now the Strategic Manager. ISTEC is a non-profit organization that its objective is to plan and implement projects and programs to promote the development of the superior education, the research, and the transfer of technology of scientific and technological matter in the region. He has received several awards and distinctions like the Order of Rio Branco in the Official rank granted in 1998 by the Government of Brazil and the International Award of Excellence from the University of New Mexico in 1999, distinguishing and compromising him in the search of solutions to the common problems of development in the region.

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