Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera
Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera | |
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| Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia | |
| In office 7 August 2018 – 3 May 2021 | |
| President | Iván Duque Márquez |
| Preceded by | Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría |
| Succeeded by | José Manuel Restrepo Abondano |
| In office 20 June 2003 – 7 March 2007 | |
| President | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Preceded by | Roberto Junguito Bonnet |
| Succeeded by | Óscar Iván Zuluaga Escobar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 April 1959 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
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| Profession | Economist |
Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera (born April 24, 1959) is a Colombian politician who served as the Minister of Finance and Public Credit under the government of President Iván Duque, and previously under President Álvaro Uribe. On May 2021 he resigned office over the protests surrounding a controversial tax reform in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. [1][2][3]
Education[]
Carrasquilla studied economics at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá and has a doctorate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[4]
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 since 2006.
- (Inactive) member of the (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 (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)[5]
- Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)[6]
- International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ex-Officio Alternate Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)[7]
- Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)[8]
- World Bank, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)[9]
References[]
- ^ "Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera es el nuevo ministro de Hacienda y Crédito Público del gobierno Duque, el ladrón más grande del gobierno Colombiano en los últimos años!" (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.
- ^ Espectador, El (2021-05-03). "ELESPECTADOR.COM". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ 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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