Esteban Bullrich

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Esteban Bullrich
National Senator
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 December 2017
Constituency	Buenos Aires Province
Minister of Education
In office 10 December 2015 – 17 July 2017
President	Mauricio Macri
Preceded by	Alberto Sileoni
Succeeded by	Alejandro Finocchiaro
Personal details
Born	Esteban José Bullrich (1969-05-26) 26 May 1969 (age 52) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political party	Republican Proposal (2009–present) Recreate for Growth (2002–2009)
Other political affiliations	Juntos por el Cambio (2015–present)
Occupation	Politician

Esteban José Bullrich (born 26 May 1969, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine politician and National Senator for the Buenos Aires Province since December 2017. He was Minister of Education of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and Minister of Education under Mauricio Macri's administration.

Biography[]

Bullrich was born and raised in the city of Buenos Aires. After completing his bachelor's degree, Bullrich began his graduate studies in the United States at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was just 24 years old when he entered the program. At Kellogg he focused on human relations and organizational studies. After receiving his MBA Bullrich spent two months teaching mathematics to orphans in Nicaragua through the Padre Fabretto Foundation; he writes on his blog estebanbullrich.com that this experience "left a profound effect on me with regards to how a good education can help a child develop and achieve a more prosperous adult life" [quote translated from Spanish].

Bullrich began his political career in 2003 when he ran for City Council for the Recreate for Growth party (Recrear) and later became vice-president for the Buenos Aires District. In office, he has organized and led efforts to improve the Argentine education system.[1] In 2005, he was elected to the National Chamber of Deputies, representing the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Bullrich caucused with the PRO alliance, a center-right political bloc. Bullrich and PRO are also allied with political blocs Commitment to Change and Recrear.

In 2006 Bullrich was recognized as an Eisenhower Fellow in its Multi Nation Program 2006.[2] This experience enabled him to meet American policy makers and study the US educational system with special attention on charter schools.

Bullrich has been in the press serving as an opposition congressman in the Skanska corruption case where the Swedish construction and development company allegedly over-charged the Argentine government for the construction of a pipeline in northern Argentina.[3]

In 2007, Bullrich took leave from the chamber of deputies to become interim Minister of Social Development of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. He officially resigned to the chamber of deputies in 2009, a few months before the end his term.

On December 22, 2009, after the resignation of Abel Posse, it was announced that Bullrich would become Minister of Education of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. He took office on January 5, 2010. During his tenure, he reduced subsidies to private schools^[1] to increase teacher salaries in public schools by around 29%^[2] and closed 221 classes in order to merge them and decrease inefficiencies. During his administration launched the Sarmiento Plan, in order to give laptops to students and teachers. Justice investigates overpricing in the purchase of these computer would have been paid 185 million dollars of premium, he said Garbarz Ariel, expert and legal expert. Premiums would be 285 percent^[3][4]

Mauricio Macri became president in 2015, and announced that he would be his minister of education.^[5] His mandate ended in 2017, after he became a senator.^[6]

As a senator, he opposed the national campaign for legal, safe and free abortion in 2018, stating religious arguments to do so.

Minister of Education[]

When he was elected national senator, he was replaced in the office of Minister of Education by Alejandro Finocchiaro.

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