Alejandro Gaviria Uribe

Alejandro Gaviria Uribe
3rd Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 September 2012
President	Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by	Beatriz Londoño Soto
Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia
In office 7 August 2002 – 6 February 2004
President	Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded by	Tomás González Estrada
Succeeded by	José Leibovich Goldenberg
Personal details
Born	1965 Santiago, Santiago, Chile
Citizenship	Colombian
Nationality	Chilean-Colombian
Spouse	Carolina Soto Losada (-present)
Alma mater	Antioquia School of Engineering (BSCE, 1987) University of the Andes (MEcon, 1993) University of California, San Diego (PhD, 1998)
Profession	Economist

Alejandro Gaviria Uribe (born 1965) is the 3rd and current Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia. A former Dean of the School of Economics at the University of the Andes from 2006 to his appointment as Minister in 2012, he has previously served as Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia, and has worked as Researcher and eventually Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Higher Education and Development (Fedesarrollo), a private non-profit policy research centre based in Bogotá, as well as Researcher for the Inter-American Development Bank.

Career

Minister of Health and Social Protection

On 30 August 2012 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Gaviria as Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia. Gaviria was sworn in on 3 September 2012 succeeding Beatriz Londoño Soto.

Personal life

Gaviria was born in 1966 in Santiago, Chile, to Juan Felipe Gaviria Gutiérrez and Cecilia Uribe Flórez. He is married to Carolina Soto Losada, the current High Presidential Counsellor for Government, Private Sector and Competitiveness of Colombia. He has two children, Mariana Gaviria and Tomas Gaviria. On september 6, it was announced he was being treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Selected works

• Londoño de la Cuesta, Juan Luis; Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Guerrero, Rodrigo, eds. (2000). Asalto al Desarrollo: Violencia en América Latina (in Spanish). Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank. ISBN 9781886938861. OCLC 45762414.
• Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Zapata Giraldo, Juan Gonzalo; González Velosa, Adriana (2002). Petróleo y Región: El Caso de Casanare. Cuadernos de Fedesarrollo, 8 (in Spanish). Bogotá: Fedesarrollo. ISBN 9789586823630. OCLC 318238438.
• Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2002). Los Que Suben y Los Que Bajan: Educación y Movilidad Social en Colombia. Economía colombiana (in Spanish). Bogotá: Alfaomega Colombiana. ISBN 9789586823920. OCLC 53006782.
• Behrman, Jere R; Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Székely, Miguel, eds. (2003). Who's In and Who's Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank. ISBN 9781931003421. OCLC 60704979.
• Gallup, John Luke; Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Lora, Eduardo (2003). Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780585479576. OCLC 270787572.
• Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2005). Del Romanticismo al Realismo Social y Otros Ensayos. Colección Vitral (in Spanish). Bogotá: Grupo Editorial Norma. ISBN 9789580488408. OCLC 69953037.
• Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2008). Uribenomics y Otras Paradojas. Colección Vitral (in Spanish). Bogotá: Grupo Editorial Norma. ISBN 9789584507624. OCLC 263313360.
• Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Mejía Londoño, Daniel, eds. (2011). Políticas Antidroga en Colombia: Éxitos, Fracasos y Extravíos (in Spanish). Bogotá: University of the Andes. ISBN 9789586956024. OCLC 739120420.

External links

• El Malpensante. "Alejandro Gaviria: Contributor's Profile" (in Spanish).
• University of the Andes; School of Economics. "Alejandro Gaviria: Faculty Profile".