Enrique Javier Cornejo Ramirez has been the Peruvian

Peruvian people

Peru is a multiethnic country formed by the combination of different groups over five centuries, so people in Peru usually treat their nationality as a citizenship rather than an ethnicity. Amerindians inhabited Peruvian territory for several millennia before Spanish Conquest in the 16th century;...

 Minister of Transportation and Communication

Communication

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s under President Alan García since September 2010. Prior to that, he was the Minister of Housing and Construction.

Biography

Enrique Cornejo graduated from the University of Lima

University of Lima

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. He has taught at universities in Ecuador

Ecuador

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 and Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. He also taught at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. From August 2006 to December 2007, he was the CEO of the National Bank of Peru

Bank of the Nation (Peru)

The Bank of the Nation, known in Spanish as the Banco de la Nación, is the bank which represents the Peruvian government in financial transactions in both the public and private sectors, as well as at both domestic and international levels. It is an entity belonging to the Peruvian Ministry of...

. In 2007, he was appointed as the Peruvian Minister of Housing and Construction. In September 2010, he became the Minister of Transportation and Communication.