Alfonso Prat-Gay

Alfonso Prat-Gay
Minister of the Treasury and Public Finances of Argentina
In office
10 December 2015 – 2 January 2017
PresidentMauricio Macri
Preceded byAxel Kicillof
Succeeded byLuis Caputo (Finance)
Nicolás Dujovne (Treasury)
President of the Central Bank
In office
11 December 2002 – 24 September 2004
Preceded byAldo Pignanelli
Succeeded byMartín Redrado
National Deputy
In office
10 December 2009 – 10 December 2013
ConstituencyCity of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Born (1965-11-24) 24 November 1965 (age 58)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political partyCivic Coalition ARI (2009-2013)
Radical Civic Union (2015–present)
Other political
affiliations
Cambiemos (2015–present)
Broad Front UNEN (2013)
Social and Civic Agreement (2009–2013)
Alma materPontifical Catholic University of Argentina
University of Pennsylvania
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Alfonso Prat-Gay (born 24 November 1965) is an Argentine economist and politician. Following the election of Mauricio Macri to the presidency on 2015, he became Minister of Economy.[1]

He was also President of the Central Bank of Argentina from December 2002 to September 2004, and was elected National Deputy for the Civic Coalition in the 2009 elections.

A decade later, as Minister of Economy in the Macri administration, he lifted 4-year-old capital controls on the Argentine currency, a mere 6 days after taking office.[2]

His work earned him Euromoney's Central Bank Governor of the Year award.[3] Prat-Gay is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank, The Inter-American Dialogue.[4]

He is considered an orthodox liberal who has a good image in the markets and fluent contacts abroad.[5] However, Prat-Gay has been a political ally to leftist Victoria Donda and some economists like Javier Milei consider him to be a socialist or a socialdemocrat.

  1. ^ "Finance chief Prat-Gay asked to rework his magic". Financial Times. 29 November 2015.
  2. ^ "Argentina lifts controls on the peso". The Economist. 17 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Prat-Gay, banquero del año". La Nación.
  4. ^ "Inter-American Dialogue | Alfonso Prat-Gay". www.thedialogue.org. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
  5. ^ "Prat-Gay, un liberal ortodoxo, es el nuevo titular del Banco Central". La Nación. 10 December 2002.