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Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera

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President
  
Alvaro Uribe Velez

Role
  
Economist

Name
  
Alberto Barrera


Profession
  
Economist

Nationality
  
Colombian

Succeeded by
  
Oscar Ivan Zuluaga

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Preceded by
  
Roberto Junguito Bonnet

Born
  
24 April 1959 (age 65) Bogota, D.C., Colombia (
1959-04-24
)

Alma mater
  
University of the Andes (B.Sc.) University of Illinois (M.Sc., Ph.D)

Education
  
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

“Nuestra estructura tributaria es un desastre”, manifiesta Alberto Carrasquilla


Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera (Born April 24, 1959) is a Colombian economist who served as Minister of Finance and Public Credit under the government of President Álvaro Uribe.

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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.

    • References

    Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera Wikipedia
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