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Spouse Michelle Ertischek (m. 2011), Ximena Caceres del Busto (m. 2003–2009) Similar César Acuña Peralta, Keiko Fujimori, Alfredo Barnechea, Verónika Mendoza, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Profiles | ||
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Julio Armando Guzmán Cáceres (born July 31, 1970, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian economist, politician, and leader of the Everyone for Peru political party. He was running for president in Peru's 2016 elections, but was disqualified.
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- Biography
- Professional and political life
- 2016 election campaign
- Personal life
- References
Biography
Julio Armando Guzman Caceres was born on July 31, 1970, in Lima. He is the second youngest of 12 children. His father, an architect by profession, came to Lima from the rural province of Anta in the Cusco Region. His mother is from Celendin in the Cajamarca Region.
Guzman attended Colegio Sagrados Corazones Recoleta high school in Lima.
Guzman joined the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he studied economics and started a career teaching mathematics. Then he studied for a Master's in Public Policy at Georgetown University and continued graduate studies at the University of Oxford before completing his PhD in Public Policy from the University of Maryland.
Professional and political life
He has been an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the nearby campus of the University of Maryland.
Guzmán worked for 10 years at the Inter-American Development Bank as an economist in integration and trade. He left to work as a deputy minister in Peru's Ministry of Labor in the government of Ollanta Humala. In 2012, he was appointed secretary general of Peru's Cabinet under Prime Minister Juan Jiménez Mayor.
Guzmán resigned from the government in February 2013.
Later he was a partner and practice leader of Government of the international firm Deloitte, also in Peru.
2016 election campaign
Guzman announced he was running for president of Peru in July 2015. He rose in the polls throughout the final months of 2015 until registering 5% of the vote in January. By February he had risen to 20% of the vote, second to leading candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of Alberto Fujimori. In March the National Elections Jury barred him from the election after it found irregularities in the party's internal processes.
Personal life
In 2003, Guzmán married Ximena Caceres del Busto, with whom he had two daughters. They divorced in 2009.
In 2011, he married American citizen Michelle Ertischek, with whom he has a daughter.