Fernando Carrera
Fernando Carrera | |
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| File:LuisFernandoCarreraCastro-fotooficial2013.JPG Fernando Carrera | |
 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala | |
| Assumed office 15 January 2013 | |
| President | Otto Pérez Molina |
| Preceded by | Harold Caballeros |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 19, 1966 GuatemalaGuatemala City, Guatemala |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Ugalde |
| Alma mater | UNA Cambridge University |
| Profession | Economist |
| Website | MINEX |
Luis Fernando Carrera Castro, (Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 19, 1966) is currently appointed as the Foreign Affairs Minister for Guatemala. He is a Guatemalan economist, specialized in Fiscal Policies, and he is also a political analyst. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica in 1990. Then, he obtained a master's degree in Economy and Development Policy, at the Cambridge University in 1992.
Professional Life
Between1993 and 1994, he was the Research Director for the Latin American regional office for the International Cooperative Alliance, and he was a consultant in rural development programs in El Salvador and Nicaragua, for several European NGO's.
From 1994 to 2007, he worked with the United Nations, through the United Nations Children's Fund, in which he participated in different fields, where he was assigned Deputy Representative to Ecuador, and later to Cape Verde (West Africa) and Panama.
From 2008 to 2010, he was assigned executive director for the Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales, ICEFI (Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies). From Mach 2010 until December 2011, he served as Executive Director for the Soros Foundation Guatemala.
He writes a column in elPeriódico, a Guatemalan newspaper, and his editorials have been displayed in the media in Central America, Spain and the USA. His analysis and comments have also been broadcast on international TV networks, such as CNN, Al Jazeera and the Spanish Television (TVE).
He has written technical abstracts in specializad publications of the United Nations. He has also participated as a speaker in several international summits in Europe, Japan, Latin America and the USA.
During his international career, Carrera Castro has cooperated in research and in public policy incidence processes, aiming to strengthen the capacities of government and society for the usage of the fiscal policies as a tool to generate human development. In this part, he has worked hard to find the operational mechanisms to enforce the Human Rights through an effective and strategic use of public budget.[1][2]
SEGEPLAN
Between 2011 and 2012, Fernando Carrera was the head of the Presidential Secretariat for Planning and Programming.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On January 14, 2013, Fernando Carrera was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs to Guatemala by president Otto Pérez.[3]