Guillermo Guzmán Prudencio holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) and a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Boliviana.

He is currently a professor at the Graduate Program in Development Sciences (CIDES) at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) and has participated in various international research projects, notably ELLAS (Latin American Open Data for Gender Equality Policies Focused on Leadership in STEM) with universities in Brazil and Peru; INEQUALITREES (A New Perspective on Socioeconomic Inequalities through Machine Learning Techniques and Integrated Data Sources) with universities in Italy, Germany, and India; and EXTRATIVISM.DE with universities in Germany. He has served as a visiting professor (Visiting Research Fellow, Erasmus+) at the Universidad de Padova, Italy (2022 and 2024). He has published articles on institutional economics, extractivism, and development.