On the occasion of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Faculty of Economic Engineering, Statistics and Social Sciences at the National University of Engineering, a tribute was paid to Luis Felipe de las Casas Grieve, who was the Founding Master of the specialty of Economic Engineering at UNI and in Peru.

The function of academic leadership, which implies research and preparation of the future intellectual elite connected to a broad vision of national development, and on the other hand, the function of training professionals for a specific market, taking into account its changing demands, are examined in this article, within the framework of a projected new public administration in Peru and Latin America.