Pedro Olaechea

Pedro Olaechea
President of Congress
(as President of the Permanent Assembly
from September 30, 2019 to March 16, 2020)
In office
July 27, 2019 – March 16, 2020
Vice President1st Vice President
Karina Beteta
2nd Vice President
Salvador Heresi
3rd Vice President
Marvin Palma
Preceded byDaniel Salaverry
Succeeded byManuel Merino (as full President of Congress)
Minister of Production
In office
May 25, 2017 – January 9, 2018
PresidentPedro Pablo Kuczynski
Prime MinisterFernando Zavala
Mercedes Aráoz
Preceded byBruno Giuffra
Succeeded byLieneke Schol
Member of Congress
In office
July 26, 2016 – March 16, 2020
ConstituencyLima
Personal details
Born
Pedro Carlos Olaechea Álvarez-Calderón

(1954-01-06) January 6, 1954 (age 70)
Lima, Peru
Nationality Peruvian
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
Peruvians for Change (non affiliated)
Republican Action (parliamentary caucus)
SpouseAna María Diez Dibós
Children4
Alma materPontifical Catholic University of Peru (BA)
Henley Management College (MBA)

Pedro Carlos Olaechea Álvarez-Calderón (born 6 January 1954) is a Peruvian economist, vintner businessman and politician, who is the former President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru. Olaechea had served in Congress from 2016 to 2019, elected for the Peruvians for Change, representing the constituency of Lima.

During the presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski from 2017 to 2018, he served as Minister of Production.

In the aftermath of the 2019 Peruvian constitutional crisis (and in his position of last President of Congress), Olaechea served as President of the Congressional Permanent Assembly until 16 March 2020, the date in which the Congress-elect was sworn in.