at the Faculties of Sciences and Political Sciences of the University of San Marcos,where he received a bachelor's degree in 1907 with his thesis on "The Hydrostatic Pressure Centers", and as a doctor in 1910 with the thesis "Essay on the rainfall regime of Lima". He also studied at the National School of Engineers (now the National University of Engineering),graduating as a Civil Engineer in 1911. Elected by students from the National School of Engineers and the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, he was part of the delegation of Peruvian students that attended the First Congress of American Students Montevideo from January 26 to February 2, 1908. As a university student he followed the military instruction required by the regulation achieving the degree of sergeant and then that of cavalry ensign in a course organized by the French Military Mission in Chorrillos. With this degree he joined the army and was mobilized to Lambayeque,when the threat of war with Ecuador in 1910. Incorporated into university teaching he was in charge, at the Faculty of Sciences of San Marcos, the infinitesimal Analysis course, first as an adjunct professor(1912)and then as a full professor(1918). From a very young age he became a member of the Civil Party. He supported, together with his brothers Javier and Jorge, General Oscar R. Benavides in the coup against President Guillermo Billinghurst,which took place on February 4, 1914; and was present at the assault on the Government Palace, a participation that earned him his promotion to lieutenant. On January 19 of that same year he had married Enriqueta Garland Higginson, six years his senior, with which he had two children: Rosa and Manuel Prado Garland. In 1915 he was elected a member of the Municipal Council of Lima during the administration of Mayor Pedro de Osma. In the Council he was an inspector of Works and as such designed some of the plans of the urban reordering of the city. As a young army officer, Prado was a key player in the coup that overthrew President Guillermo Billinghurst in 1914. He became president of the Central Reserve Bank in 1934 and served until 1939. He assumed the presidency of the Associated Electric Companies. In 1919, when President Augusto B. Leguía began his eleventh-century, Serrano was elected deputy for huamachuco province for that year's National Assembly which was intended to issue the