Prof. Carlos Aguirre-Bastos is a specialist in public policy of research and innovation in developing countries, and experience in institutional management. Since 1976, Full Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Bolivia and President between 1992 and 2002. Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires and (invited) Member of the European Academy of Sciences. 

Since 2023, General Coordinator of a regional project dealing with the innovation – inclusion nexus, executed by the Higher Education Council of Central American Universities and the International Development Research Center of Canada. Between 2010 and 2022, Senior Policy Advisor in the National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation of Panama and between 2020 – 2012 Senior Advisor to the President of the Panama Technological University. 

Visiting scientist at the Austrian Institute of Technology; the International University of Andalusia (Spain); the Institute for Pure and Applied Nuclear Research of the University of Kiel (Germany); The Astronomical Council of the former USSR Academy of Sciences; the Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) (Japan); the Faculty of Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina). Associate of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy).

Director of Academic Planning: Catholic University (Bolivia); Professor of physics and Director of the Physical Research Institute: University of San Andres (Bolivia); Executive Secretary, National Council for Science and Technology (Bolivia); Director of Science and Technology, Ministry of Planning (Bolivia). Head of the Technology Department of the Andean Group Secretariat. Between 2004 and 2006 Ambassador of Bolivia in Panama.
Policy consultant: Africa (Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Senegal); Canada; Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Gulf Cooperation Council, Iraq); Europe (Austria, Spain, Sweden), Latin America; Southeast Asia (Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia).