Mauricio González Sfeir


Mauricio González Sfeir is a former Secretary of Energy of Bolivia, former petroleum company executive and former president of the Bolivian professional football teams The Strongest and La Paz F.C. Mr. Gonzalez served as president of YPFB and Secretary of Energy of Bolivia in the mid-1990s, contributing to the success of the Bolivia-Brazil natural gas pipeline. He is a co-author of the Baker Institute's "Americas Project." He has also been involved in philanthropic activities with educational institutions, both in the United States and in Bolivia. Mr. Gonzalez was an accomplished amateur tennis player in his youth and university days, having represented Bolivia in junior Davis Cup competition at the South American championships and having earned a varsity Blue (university sport)
Mauricio Gonzalez studied economics at DePaul University and Yale University and finance & management at Harvard Business School. Furthermore, he pursued post-graduate studies at Oxford University, while on a Marshall Scholarship. During college, he was a summer intern at the Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs. After completing his university education and prior to returning to Bolivia, Mr. Gonzalez worked as an international management consultant in the London office of The Boston Consulting Group.
Mr. Gonzalez has had a lifelong involvement with sport. He represented Bolivia in Junior Davis Cup tennis competition at the South American level, taught tennis at the Welby Van Horn Tennis Camp, and played on the varsity tennis teams of DePaul University and Oxford University, where he earned two varsity Blue (university sport). He is a past president of The Strongest football club, a past president of the La Paz Football Association and a past vice-president of the Bolivian Football Federation.
Mr. Gonzalez has promoted Bolivian football, including junior and women's divisions. He has advocated for the proposition that the Bolivia national team and Bolivian club teams should be allowed to play-official international matches—including World Cup qualifying games—in the high-altitude cities of La Paz, Oruro, and Potosi. He is a leading member of an ad hoc committee of prominent Bolivians formed to design a strategy to campaign against the FIFA altitude ban.
González is based in Bolivia and the United States according to the website of Cereus Capital Partners as of July 10, 2025. He has had several academic appointments, the most recent being at Dominican University in the Chicago Metropolitan Area.
In La Paz, Bolivia, on October 14, 2024, celebrating the centenary of the birth of Walter Gonzalez Gonzalez, Mauricio Gonzalez Sfeir was the keynote speaker at the XXXIst Awards Ceremony for the Premio Ing. Walter Gonzalez a la Excelencia Academica at the UMSA.
Media Coverage
  • Numerous articles regarding Mr. Gonzalez's advocacy in defense of Bolivian high-altitude football/soccer