
Álvaro Duran, Founding Member of the Alianza Peruana de Sommeliers – ALIPS.
Álvaro is Commercial Manager at a bottling company, Sommelier, and Water Sommelier.
He is Columbian-Peruvian, a publicist from Bogotá’s Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, and business administrator from Lima’s Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Diploma in Communication from Bogotá’s Universidad Javeriana. Commercial Management Program – PAD, Universidad de Piura, 2022.
With more than 25 years of experience in advertising, branding and visual communication campaigns, with clients such as: Bank Boston, Starbucks, Fundación Telefónica, Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI, Instituto Nacional de Cultura – INC, Goethe – Institut Peru, PAD of the University of Piura, Socosani, among others.
Sommelier of wines and spirits of the Escuela Peruana de Sommeliers. Currently, he is pursuing studies as water sommelier with the Fine Water Academy in the USA.


