Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera

Colombian politician and economist

Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera


Minister of Finance and Public Credit
In office 7 August 2018 (2018-08-07) – 3 May 2021 (2021-05-03)
President	Iván Duque
Preceded by	Mauricio Cárdenas
Succeeded by	José Manuel Restrepo
In office 20 June 2003 (2003-06-20) – 7 March 2007 (2007-03-07)
President	Álvaro Uribe
Preceded by	Roberto Bonnet
Succeeded by	Óscar Iván Zuluaga

Personal details
Born	(1959-04-24) 24 April 1959 (age 65) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Alma mater	University of the Andes (B.Sc.) University of Illinois (M.Sc., Ph.D)
Profession	Economist

Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera (born April 24, 1959) is a Colombian politician who served as the Minister of Finance and Public Credit under the government of President Iván Duque, and previously under President Álvaro Uribe. In May 2021 he resigned office over the protests surrounding a controversial tax reform in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Education

Carrasquilla studied economics at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá and has a doctorate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.^[4]

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)^[5]
Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)^[6]
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ex-Officio Alternate Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)^[7]
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)^[8]
World Bank, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)^[9]

References

^ "Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera es el nuevo ministro de Hacienda y Crédito Público del gobierno Duque, el ladrón más grande del gobierno Colombiano en los últimos años!" (in Spanish). Ecos de Colombia. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
^ Government of Colombia (7 August 2018). "ALBERTO CARRASQUILLA – Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público". Retrieved 10 August 2018.
^ Espectador, El (2021-05-03). "ELESPECTADOR.COM". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-05-03.
^ Helen Murphy, Carlos Vargas and Nelson Bocanegra (July 11, 2018), Colombia's Duque names Alberto Carrasquilla as his finance minister Reuters.
^ Board of Governors Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI).
^ Board of Governors Archived 2018-11-04 at the Wayback Machine Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC).
^ Members International Monetary Fund (IMF).
^ Board of Governors Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group.
^ 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 2018–2021	Succeeded by José Manuel Restrepo Abondano

Cabinet of President Iván Duque (2018–2022)

Cabinet
Vice President	Marta Lucía Ramírez (2018–2022)
Minister of the Interior	Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez (2018–2020) Alicia Arango (2020) Daniel Palacios (2020–2022)
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Carlos Holmes Trujillo (2018–2019) Claudia Blum (2019–2021) Marta Lucía Ramírez (2021–2022)
Minister of Finance and Public Credit	Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera (2018–2021) José Manuel Restrepo Abondano (2021–2022)
Minister of Justice and Law	Gloria María Borrero (2018–2019) Margarita Cabello Blanco (2019–2020) Wilson Ruiz Orejuela (2020–2022)
Minister of National Defence	Guillermo Botero Nieto (2018–2019) Carlos Holmes Trujillo (2019–2021) Diego Molano Aponte (2021–2022)
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development	Andrés Valencia Pinzón (2018–2020) Rodolfo Enrique Zea (2020–2022)
Minister of Health and Social Protection	Juan Pablo Uribe (2018–2020) Fernando Ruiz Gómez (2020–2022)
Minister of Labour	Alicia Arango (2018–2020) Guardian Angel Cabrera (2020–2022)
Minister of Mines and Energy	María Fernanda Suárez (2018–2020) Diego Mesa Puyo (2020–2022)
Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism	José Manuel Restrepo Abondano (2018–2021) Maria Ximena Lombana (2021–2022)
Minister of National Education	María Victoria Angulo (2018–2022)
Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development	Ricardo Lozano Picón (2018–2020) Carlos Eduardo Correa (2018–2022)
Minister of Housing, City and Territory	Jonathan Malagón (2018–2022) Susana Correa (2022)
Minister of Information Technologies and Communications	Silvia Constaín Rengifo (2018–2020) Karen Abudinen (2020–2021) Carmen Ligia Valderrama (2021–2022)
Minister of Transport	Ángela María Orozco (2018–2022)
Minister of Culture	Carmen Vásquez Camacho (2018–2020) Felipe Buitrago (2020–2021) Angélica Mayolo Obregón (2021–2022)
Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation	Mabel Gisela Torres (2020–2021) Tito José Crissien (2021–2022)
Minister of Sports	Ernesto Lucena Barrero (2019–2021) Guillermo Herrera Castaño (2021–2022)

Cabinet-level
Chief of Staff	María Paula Correa (2019-2022)
Director of the DAPR	Víctor Manuel Muñoz (2018–2022)
Deputy Director of the DAFP	Claudia Patricia Hernández (2018–2022)
Director of Colciencias	Diego Fernando Hernández (2018-2022)
Director of Coldeportes	Andres Botero (2018-2022)
Director of the DANE	Juan Daniel Oviedo (2018-2022)
Director of DNP	Tatyana Orozco (2018-2022)