Economist, graduated from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA). He was Director of Venezuela’s State Oil Company PDVSA until 1998. Taught at IESA, Universidad Metropolitana, and the Instituto de Altos Estudios de la Defensa Nacional (IAEDEN), visiting professor at the Universidad Cecilio Acosta de Maracaibo, and member of the University Council of Universidad Tecnológica del Centro, (UNITEC).

In 1998 the Universidad Fermín Toro created a Department of Petroleum Studies and was assigned the name of "Jose Toro Hardy" and designated him Honorary Professor of this university. He was also director of CEDICE, of the IESA Foundation, and other institutions.

For several years, he was the host of the program Análisis con José Toro Hardy that was transmitted by Globovisión and broadcasted throughout Latin America. He was also host of “Punto de Vista” in Caracas' radio station Unión Radio.

Titles by José Toro Hardy: