Alberto Carrasquilla
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Alberto Carrasquilla (Born April 24, 1959 in Bogotá, Colombia was the Minister of Finance and Public Credit under the government of president Alvaro Uribe until February 2007.
[edit] Early life
Carrasquilla studied Economy in the Universidad de los Andes and later acquired a Master and a Ph.D at the Illinois University.
[edit] Career
- Technical Manager of the Bank of the Republic
- Economist, Research leader for the Inter-American Development Bank.
- Dean of the Economy Faculty 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 Comittee (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.
[edit] References
- Presidency of Colombia - Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Alberto Carrasquilla
- americaeconomica.com - Alberto Carrasquilla
- El Nuevo Herald - Colombia: Ministro de Hacienda confía consolidar logros
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