Jonathan Menkos

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Menkos and the second or maternal family name is Zeissig.
Jonathan Menkos
Official portrait as member of Congress, 2024
Minister of Public Finance
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 January 2024
PresidentBernardo Arévalo
Preceded byEdwin Oswaldo Martínez Cameros
Member of the Congress of Guatemala
In office
14 January 2024 – 19 January 2024
Succeeded byOlga Isabel Villalta Pereira
ConstituencyNational List
Personal details
Born (1975-06-29) 29 June 1975 (age 49)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Political partySemilla
Alma materUniversidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Universidad de Valparaíso
Websitehttps://jonathanmenkos.org

Jonathan Kiril Thomas Menkos Zeissig (born 29 June 1975) is a Guatemalan economist, politician, writer, academic and analyst serving as Guatemala's Minister of Public Finance since January 19, 2024.[1][2] He previously served as president of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (ICEFI) starting September 2012.[3][4]

On March 5, 2019, the Board of Directors of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies announced that Menkos requested a license to be absent from his duties as President of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies from March 1 to August 15, 2019. Hours later, the political party Movimiento Semilla announced that Menkos had been elected as its vice presidential candidate and running mate of ex-attorney general Thelma Aldana,[5][6] however Aldana was disqualified from the presidential race.[7]

  1. ^ "Arévalo juramenta a Jonathan Menkos como Ministro de Finanzas" (in Spanish). 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  2. ^ "Revelan nombres de algunas personas que integrarán el Gabinete de Bernardo Arévalo" (in Spanish). 2023-12-20. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  3. ^ "Semilla confirma a Jonathan Menkos como vicepresidenciable junto con Thelma Aldana". Publinews (in Spanish). 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Thelma Aldana ya tendría candidato a vicepresidente". Soy502 (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Thelma Aldana y Jonathan Menkos son el binomio de Semilla". La Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  6. ^ "El vice de Thelma Aldana y por qué Semilla lo eligió a él". Nómada (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  7. ^ Cuffe, Sandra (15 May 2019). "Guatemala court rules popular anti-corruption crusader ineligible to run for president". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 May 2019.