Alejandro Gaviria Uribe

Colombian economist

Alejandro Gaviria Uribe


Minister of National Education
In office 7 August 2022 – 27 February 2023
President	Gustavo Petro
Preceded by	María Victoria Angulo
Succeeded by	Aurora Vergara
Rector of the University of Los Andes
In office 22 May 2019 – 27 August 2021
Preceded by	Pablo Navas Sanz
Succeeded by	Raquel Bernal Salazar
Minister of Health and Social Protection
In office 3 September 2012 – 7 August 2018
President	Juan Manuel Santos
Preceded by	Beatriz Londoño Soto
Succeeded by	Fernando Ruiz Gomez
Deputy Director of the National Planning Department
In office 7 August 2002 – 6 February 2004
President	Álvaro Uribe
Preceded by	Tomás González Estrada
Succeeded by	José Leibovich Goldenberg

Personal details
Born	Alejandro Gaviria Uribe (1965-06-25) 25 June 1965 (age 58) Santiago, Chile
Spouse	Carolina Soto Losada
Education	Antioquia School of Engineering (BS) University of the Andes (MEcon) University of California, San Diego (PhD)

Alejandro Gaviria Uribe (born 25 June 1965) is a Colombian economist and engineer, serving as the Minister of National Education of Colombia since 7 August 2022, replacing María Victoria Angulo.^[1] He also served as Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia from 2012 to 2018. He is the former Rector of the University of Los Andes (Colombia), where he served from 2019 to August of 2021. He was Dean of the School of Economics at University of los Andes in 2006, until his appointment as Minister in 2012. Prior to his academic career, Gaviria served as Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia, as well as Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Higher Education and Development (Fedesarrollo), a private non-profit policy research centre, and as a Researcher at the Inter-American Development Bank. A published author of several books and scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, in 2019 he was appointed Rector of University of the Andes for a four-year period.^[2]

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.^[3] Gaviria was sworn in on 3 September 2012 succeeding Beatriz Londoño Soto. On 7 August 2018, he was succeeded by the medical doctor and surgeon Juan Pablo Uribe Restrepo under the government of president Iván Duque Márquez.

Personal life

Gaviria was born in 1966 in Santiago, Chile, to Juan Felipe Gaviria Gutiérrez and Cecilia Uribe Flórez.^[4] He is married to Carolina Soto Losada, former High Presidential Counsellor for Government, Private Sector and Competitiveness of Colombia. He has two children, Mariana Gaviria and Tomas Gaviria. On 6 September 2017, it was announced he was being treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.^[5] Gaviria identifies as an atheist.^[6]

Selected works

Londoño de la Cuesta, Juan Luis; Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Guerrero, Rodrigo, eds. (2000). Asalto al Desarrollo: Violencia en América Latina (in Spanish). Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank. ISBN 9781886938861. OCLC 45762414.
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Zapata Giraldo, Juan Gonzalo; González Romero, Adriana (2002). Petróleo y Región: El Caso de Casanare. Cuadernos de Fedesarrollo, 8 (in Spanish). Bogotá: Fedesarrollo. ISBN 9789586823630. OCLC 318238438.
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2002). Los Que Suben y Los Que Bajan: Educación y Movilidad Social en Colombia. Economía colombiana (in Spanish). Bogotá: Alfaomega Colombiana. ISBN 9789586823920. OCLC 53006782.
Behrman, Jere R; Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Székely, Miguel, eds. (2003). Who's In and Who's Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank. ISBN 9781931003421. OCLC 60704979.
Gallup, John Luke; Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Lora, Eduardo (2003). Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780585479576. OCLC 270787572.
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2005). Del Romanticismo al Realismo Social y Otros Ensayos. Colección Vitral (in Spanish). Bogotá: Grupo Editorial Norma. ISBN 9789580488408. OCLC 69953037.
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2008). Uribenomics y Otras Paradojas. Colección Vitral (in Spanish). Bogotá: Grupo Editorial Norma. ISBN 9789584507624. OCLC 263313360.
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Mejía Londoño, Daniel, eds. (2011). Políticas Antidroga en Colombia: Éxitos, Fracasos y Extravíos (in Spanish). Bogotá: University of the Andes. ISBN 9789586956024. OCLC 739120420.
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2016). Alguien tiene que llevar la contraria. Ariel.
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2018). Hoy es siempre todavía. Ariel.
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2019). Siquiera tenemos las palabras. Ariel.
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2020). Otro fin del mundo es posible. Ariel.
Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro (2021). En defensa del humanismo. Ariel.

References

^ "Alejandro Gaviria será el próximo ministro de Educación". www.eluniversal.com.co (in European Spanish). 2022-07-07. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
^ "CV of Alejandro Gaviria" (PDF). University of the Andes. Retrieved 29 April 2013.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Presidente designó a Alejandro Gaviria como Ministro de Salud" (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Office of the President of. 30 August 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
^ García Vásquez, Julio César. "Álvaro Uribe Vélez y su Parentesco con los Dirigentes del País Económico" (PDF) (in Spanish). Bogotá: Interconexion Colombia. pp. 142–143. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
^ "Alejandro Gaviria comenzó tratamiento contra el cáncer". 9 June 2017.
^ ""No cambio mi convicción de que no hay vida después de la muerte": Alejandro Gaviria" (in Spanish). Semana. 21 April 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2019.

External links

El Malpensante. "Alejandro Gaviria: Contributor's Profile" (in Spanish).
University of the Andes; School of Economics. "Alejandro Gaviria: Faculty Profile".^{[permanent dead link]}

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Minister of Mines and Energy	Irene Vélez (2022-2023) Omar Andrés Camacho (2023-present)
Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism	Germán Umaña (2022-present)
Minister of National Education	Alejandro Gaviria (2022-2023) Aurora Vergara (2023-present)
Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development	Susana Muhamad (2022-present)
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Minister of the Interior and Justice	Germán Vargas Lleras (2010–2011)
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Minister of Foreign Affairs	María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar (2010–2018)
Minister of Finance and Public Credit	Juan Carlos Echeverry Garzón (2010–2012) Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María (2012–2018)
Minister of National Defence	Rodrigo Rivera Salazar (2010– 2011) Juan Carlos Pinzón (2011–2015) Luis Carlos Villegas Echeverri (2015–2018)
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development	Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar (2010–2013) Francisco Estupiñán Heredia (2013–2013) Rubén Darío Lizarralde Montoya (2013–2014) Aurelio Iragorri Valencia (2014–2018)
Minister of Social Protection	Mauricio Santa María Salamanca (2010–2011)
Minister of Labour	Rafael Pardo Rueda (2011–2014) Luis Eduardo Garzón (2014–2018)
Minister of Health and Social Protection	Mauricio Santa María Salamanca (2011–2012) Beatriz Londoño Soto (2012–2012) Alejandro Gaviria Uribe (2012–2018)
Minister of Mines and Energy	Carlos Rodado Noriega (2010–2011) Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María (2011–2012) Federico Renjifo Vélez (2012–2013) Amilkar Acosta Medina (2013–2014) Tomás González Estrada (2014–2016) María Lorena Gutiérrez (2016–2016) Germán Arce (2016–2018)
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Minister of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development	Beatriz Elena Uribe Botero (2010—2011)
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Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development	Frank Pearl González (2011–2012) Juan Gabriel Uribe Vegalara (2012–2013) Luz Helena Sarmiento Villamizar (2013–2014) Gabriel Vallejo López (2014–2018)
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