# Orlando Carnota Lauzán Passes Away in Havana

**Date:** 06/18/2022

In the early morning hours of Friday, June 17, the distinguished professor Dr. C Orlando Carnota Lauzán passed away in Havana.

A Certified Public Accountant and Bachelor of Economics, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Full Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the University of Havana, the beloved professor Carnota was also a Consulting Professor at the National School of Public Health.

Born on August 26, 1934, he began working at the age of 13. He graduated as a Certified Public Accountant in 1963 from the University of Havana and as a Doctor of Economic Sciences in 1977 from Charles University in Prague. He attained the academic rank of Full Professor in 1977 and Consulting Professor in 2005. He received the distinction of Distinguished Researcher in 2006. Additionally, he graduated in English from the Havana Business Academy, in French from the School of Letters at the University of Havana, and in Russian from the Abraham Lincoln School.

He specialized in management, computer science applied to management, management technologies, and systems analysis and design.

He worked as a systematizing manager, advisor, and consultant in medium and large-sized organizations including industrial and service companies, public and international agencies, among which he was notably Administrator of Mining Projects in the province of Oriente; Systematizer-organizer of the Cuban Mining Institute; Director of Methods, Systems and Organization of the Ministry of Industries; Head of the Control Department of the Institute of Economics; Director of the Applied Computer Science Center for Management at the University of Havana; International Consultant for WHO/PAHO; Consultant-Advisor and Head of the Computerization Program of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers; General Director of the Professional Training Center for Tourism; Consulting Advisor to the Presidency of Cubatur Agency; Consultant for Venezuela's XXI Agency; Consultant for the Aesculapius Foundation of Panama; Consultant-Advisor and Advisor for PAHO-WHO Development Projects in Cuba; Consultant for the Health Department of Tabasco, Mexico; accumulating more than 50 years of professional and executive experience, particularly in the sectors of industry, public administration, tourism, education, and health.

He added to his credentials more than 54 years of work as a professor, most of which he developed at the University of Havana and at the National School of Public Health of Cuba. He also collaborated as a professor at the Professional Development Center of the National Association of Economists and Accountants. His teaching work included methodological design and preparation of materials for students. He was a guest professor at universities in Chile, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, and Mexico; participated in the design of university programs, master's degrees, and doctoral programs, both in Cuba and abroad. He regularly gave lectures to state administration agencies, companies, and educational institutions. He participated in the organization and execution of the national program for trainer of trainers in the field of management. He served on specialty and scientific degree committees, and served as tutor and opponent of numerous theses.

Professor Carnota wrote more than 15 books, some of them with several editions, the most relevant being:

Administration Course for Leaders
Projection of Automated Management Systems
When Time is Not Enough
Management Without Stress
Management Technologies
Management of Public Sector Organizations. Theory and Practice

He also published numerous articles in prestigious journals, as well as study guides, reading selections, collections of exercises, cases and monographs supporting the courses taught in Cuba and abroad. He has several publications in electronic format, among which stand out the virtual online course "Impact of the Informatics on Epidemiology and Health Care Management" from the Global Health Network, several editions of his Virtual Library for postgraduate training of health sector managers, as well as more than 20 articles on theoretical and practical aspects of management on Internet sites.

As part of his work in International Organizations, he was Cuba's permanent delegate to the A-4 Council of the Intergovernmental Commission on Computing of COMECON for the design of programs and curricula for the training of Information Technology specialists. He also served as consultant to the Pan American Health Organization at the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua and later in Washington.

He was president and member of commissions for the design of program profiles and curricula for undergraduate and postgraduate training. He participated in the commission that proposed the creation of the Ministry of Higher Education. He was part of the group that prepared methodological and legal documents for the system of work with cadres. He was on the team that designed the human resources management system for the Ministry of Tourism and the professional training system for that sector. He was a member of the Scientific Council, the Commission of Scientific Degrees, and the Subcommission of Projects of the National School of Public Health (Ensap). He belonged to the academic committee of several master's programs. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Medical Informatics Magazine of Argentina, part of the review team of the Medical Sciences Publishing House and of the magazines Horizontes Sanitarios of Mexico, Health in Tabasco, and Cuban Journal of Public Health. He was part of the Permanent National Committee for the awarding of scientific degrees in Applied Economics.

He maintained active and leadership participation in the management development group of Ensap.

He received numerous recognitions for his work as researcher and professor, among which stand out:

Best Director of the Vice-Ministry of Economics of the Ministry of Industries.
Diploma for outstanding work during more than ten years of collaboration with the Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers.
Letter of recognition from the Central Committee of the Communist Party for his "commendable work" in processing documents for the III Congress of the Party.
Diploma for his participation in introducing modern management techniques in Cuba.
Diploma for 50 years of his work as an Economics professional.
"Felipe Poey" Medal.
Distinction for Cuban Education.
"José Tey" Medal.
Commemorative Coin for the 80th and 90th anniversaries of the National School of Public Health.
"Frank País" Order, Second Grade.
Carlos J Finlay Order.

Until the time of his passing, he was working tirelessly, a testament to his great scientific and human prestige recognized in the institution, at the national and international level.