Education and professional experience to work Toledo shoeshine and conducted vendor to contribute to the household economy, which was very precarious. These activities continued in parallel with their primary education in state schools San Isidro and Minerva. He was educated in the Great Unity School San Pedro de Chimbote, highlighting literary and journalistic skills. These skills earned him win a scholarship in 1966 to graduate studies at the University of San Francisco, USA. From there his life changed and began a distinguished career that took him to the presidency. Toledo Young studied economics in 1970 and completed undergraduate studies. He himself says that at this time was some economic resources semiprofessional soccer practice and as assistant professor. He earned a master’s degree in economics from Stanford University in 1971 and MA in Education with a specialization in Human Resources in 1972.In 1976 he received a doctorate in Education with a specialization in Human Resources also at Stanford University and in 1979 he married the Jewish Belgian anthropologist Eliane Karp, scholar of pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru. Toledo worked at the Center for Promotion and International Development Education from Stanford University, the headquarters of the Organization of the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Agency for International Development U.S. (USAID), the International Labor Organization (ILO), UNICEF and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and was a visiting professor of Waseda University. Distributed, therefore, your stay in the cities of New York, Washington DC, Geneva and Paris. Back in Peru kept their jobs as a consultant and visiting fellow at the Institute for International Development at Harvard University and at Waseda University in Tokyo.He was Professor of Finance and Accounting at the School of Business Administration – (ESAN) and directed the Economic Development Institute (SDI).