| Susana Vilca | |
| Office: | Minister of Energy and Mines |
| Term Start: | February 13, 2020 |
| Term End: | July 15, 2020 |
| President: | Martín Vizcarra |
| Primeminister: | Vicente Zeballos |
| Predecessor: | Juan Carlos Liu |
| Successor: | Rafael Belaúnde Llosa |
| Office2: | Deputy Minister of Mines |
| Term Start2: | August 2, 2011 |
| Term End2: | January 20, 2012 |
| President2: | Ollanta Humala |
| Primeminister2: | Salomón Lerner Óscar Valdés |
| Minister2: | Carlos Herrera Jorge Merino |
| Predecessor2: | Fernando Gala Soldevilla |
| Successor2: | Gustavo Adolfo Luyo Velit |
| Office3: | Member of Congress |
| Constituency3: | Puno |
| Term Start3: | July 26, 2006 |
| Term End3: | July 25, 2011 |
| Birth Date: | 11 August 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Lima, Peru |
| Profession: | Mining engineer |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Nationality: |  Peruvian |
| Party: | Independent (2017-present) |
| Alma Mater: | National University of the Altiplano of Puno (BS) |
Susana Gladis Vilca Achata (born August 11, 1959) is a Peruvian politician and was a Congresswoman representing Puno for the 2006–2011 term. Vilca belonged to the Union for Peru party.[1]
Susana Gladis Vilca Achata is a mining engineer with a master's degree in Environmental Protection Technologies. She also has studies completed in the master's degree in Mining Management developed at Gerens Escuela de Postgrado.
She was elected Congresswoman of the Republic for the period 2006–2011, she also held the position of Vice Minister of Mines of the Ministry of Energy and Mines between the years 2011 and 2012, and was president of the board of directors of the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute (Ingemmet) between the years 2012 and 2016.[2]
She was also appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano and has served as vice-president of the Asociación de Servicios de Geología y Minería Iberoamericanos – ASGMI.
She is the daughter of Don José Vilca and Doña Clotilde Achata. She is the eldest of six children. She did her primary studies at School No. 1124 in the District of Cabanillas and her secondary studies at the Adventist School of Chullunquiani in the city of Juliaca.
Later, she entered the Faculty of Mining Engineering at the National University of the Altiplano in Puno. She graduates as a Mining Engineer with the thesis "Technical Economic Study for the Exploitation of Alluvial Gold", research developed in the Norma Mine in the province of Sandía in Puno.[3]