Martin Monsalve is an associate professor at Universidad del Pacífico and President of the Universidad del Pacifico Press. He holds a Ph.D.in History from Stony Brook University (State University of New York). His current research interest are corporate networks of large Peruvian companies, and the role of family business in regional development. Monsalve Zanatti most recent publications include Regional elites in Peru in a context of fiscal boom: Arequipa, Cusco, Piura y San Martín, 2000-2013 (Co-author with Paula Muñoz et all) and Evolution of the Peruvian large family business, 1896- 2012 in Paloma Fernández Pérez and Andrea Lluch (editors), Evolution of Family Business: Continuity and Change in Latin America and Spain.