Alejandro Gaviria Uribe
| Alejandro Gaviria Uribe | |
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| 3rd Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia | |
| Assumed office 3 September 2012 |
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| President | Juan Manuel Santos Calderón |
| Preceded by | Beatriz Londoño Soto |
| Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia | |
| In office 7 August 2002 – 6 February 2004 |
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| President | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Preceded by | Tomás González Estrada |
| Succeeded by | José Leibovich Goldenberg |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1965 Santiago, Santiago, Chile |
| Citizenship | Colombian |
| Nationality | Chilean-Colombian |
| Spouse(s) | Carolina Soto Losada (-present) |
| Alma mater | Antioquia School of Engineering (BSCE, 1987) University of the Andes (MEcon, 1993) University of California, San Diego (PhD, 1998) |
| Profession | Economist |
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Alejandro Gaviria Uribe (born 1965) is the 3rd and current Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia. A former Dean of the School of Economics at the University of the Andes from 2006 to his appointment as Minister in 2012, he has previously served as Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia, and has worked as Researcher and eventually Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Higher Education and Development (Fedesarrollo), a private non-profit policy research centre based in Bogotá, as well as Researcher for the Inter-American Development Bank.[1]
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Career
Minister of Health and Social Protection
On 30 August 2012 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Gaviria as Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia.[2] Gaviria was sworn in on 3 September 2012 succeeding Beatriz Londoño Soto.
Personal life
Alejandro was born in 1966 in Santiago, Chile, to Juan Felipe Gaviria Gutiérrez and Cecilia Uribe Flórez.[3] He is married to Carolina Soto Losada, the current Deputy Minister of Finance and Public Credit.[4]
Selected works
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- 1966 births
- Living people
- People from Santiago
- Chilean people of Colombian descent
- Colombian people of Chilean descent
- University of Los Andes (Colombia) alumni
- University of California, San Diego alumni
- Colombian civil engineers
- Colombian economists
- Colombian journalists
- Male journalists
- University of Los Andes (Colombia) faculty
- Ministers of Health and Social Protection of Colombia
