Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera
Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera | |
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| Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia | |
| Assumed office 7 August 2018 | |
| President | Iván Duque Márquez |
| Preceded by | Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría |
| In office 20 June 2003 – 7 March 2007 | |
| President | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Preceded by | Roberto Junguito Bonnet |
| Succeeded by | Óscar Iván Zuluaga Escobar |
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| Born | 24 April 1959 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
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| Profession | Economist |
Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera (born April 24, 1959) is a Colombian politician and economist who is the current Minister of Finance and Public Credit under the government of President Iván Duque, having also previously served under President Álvaro Uribe.[1][2]
Education
Carrasquilla studied economics at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá and has a doctorate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[3]
Career
- Technical Manager of the Bank of the Republic
- Economist, Research leader for the Inter-American Development Bank.
- Dean of the Economics Department at the University of the Andes.
- Colombian Viceminister of Finance in 2002.
- Was elected President of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Development Committee in 2005.
- elected President of the Andean Fomenting Corporation Directorate since 2006.
- (Inactive) member of the Latin American Financial Affairs Committee (CLAAF).
- As Minister of Finance and Public Credit receives an honorary membership to the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia, President of the Executive Directorate of Bank of the Republic, member of the Executive Directorate of Ecopetrol and member of the Latin American Reserves Fund (FLAR)
- Was a weekly columnist of the Colombian newspaper of El Espectador and El Tiempo in Bogotá.
Other activities
- Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)[4]
- Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)[5]
- International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ex-Officio Alternate Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)[6]
- Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)[7]
- World Bank, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)[8]
References
- ^ "Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera es el nuevo ministro de Hacienda y Crédito Público del gobierno Duque" (in Spanish). Ecos de Colombia. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ^ Government of Colombia (7 August 2018). "ALBERTO CARRASQUILLA – Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público". Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Helen Murphy, Carlos Vargas and Nelson Bocanegra (July 11, 2018), Colombia's Duque names Alberto Carrasquilla as his finance minister Reuters.
- ^ Board of Governors Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI).
- ^ Board of Governors Archived 2018-11-04 at the Wayback Machine Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC).
- ^ Members International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- ^ Board of Governors Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group.
- ^ Board of Governors World Bank.
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