Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera

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]

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Carrasquilla and the second or maternal family name is Barrera.

Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera
Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 August 2018 (2018-08-07)
President	Iván Duque Márquez
Preceded by	Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría
In office 20 June 2003 (2003-06-20) – 7 March 2007 (2007-03-07)
President	Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded by	Roberto Junguito Bonnet
Succeeded by	Óscar Iván Zuluaga Escobar
Personal details
Born	(1959-04-24) 24 April 1959 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Alma mater	University of the Andes (B.Sc.) University of Illinois (M.Sc., Ph.D)
Profession	Economist

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Carrasquilla and the second or maternal family name is Barrera.

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

1. "Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera es el nuevo ministro de Hacienda y Crédito Público del gobierno Duque" (in Spanish). Ecos de Colombia. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
2. Government of Colombia (7 August 2018). "ALBERTO CARRASQUILLA – Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público". Retrieved 10 August 2018.
3. Helen Murphy, Carlos Vargas and Nelson Bocanegra (July 11, 2018), Colombia's Duque names Alberto Carrasquilla as his finance minister Reuters.
4. Board of Governors Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI).
5. Board of Governors Archived 2018-11-04 at the Wayback Machine Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC).
6. Members International Monetary Fund (IMF).
7. Board of Governors Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group.
8. Board of Governors World Bank.

Political offices
Preceded by Roberto Junguito Bonnet	Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia 2003–2007	Succeeded by Óscar Iván Zuluaga Escobar
Preceded by Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría	Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia 2018–present	Incumbent