Esteban Bullrich
Birth name:	Esteban José Bullrich
Birth place:	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Position:	Argentine National Deputy
Bloque:	PRO

Esteban José Bullrich (b. 26 May 1969, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

) is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 politician. As of 2007, at 38 years of age, he is one of the youngest members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies

Argentine Chamber of Deputies

The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Argentine National Congress. This Chamber holds exclusive rights to create taxes, to draft troops, and to accuse the President, the ministers and the members of the Supreme Court before the Senate....

.

Bullrich was born and raised in the city of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

. After completing his bachelor’s degree, Bullrich began his graduate studies in the United States at the Kellogg School of Management

Kellogg School of Management

The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...

 of Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

 in Evanston, Illinois

Evanston, Illinois

Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan...

. He was just 24 years old when he entered the program, one of the youngest in his class. At Kellogg he focused on human relations and organizational studies. After receiving his MBA Bullrich spent two months teaching mathematics to orphans in Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

 through the Padre Fabretto Foundation; he writes on his blog estebanbullrich.com that this experience "left a profound effect on me with regards to how a good education can help a child develop and achieve a more prosperous adult life" [quote translated from Spanish].

Bullrich began his political career in 2003 when he ran for City Council for the Recreate for Growth

Recreate for Growth

Recreate for Growth was a conservative liberal political party in Argentina, that existed from 2002 to 2009.The party was formed in March 2002, mostly by market-oriented members of the Radical Civic Union, headed by Ricardo López Murphy....

 party (Recrear) and later became vice-president for the Buenos Aires District. In office, he has organized and led efforts to improve the Argentine education system.http://eisenhowerfellowships.org/download/summaries/06/Esteban%20Bullrich%20summary.pdf
Since October 12, 2005 Bullrich has represented the Federal Capital of Buenos Aires, and is scheduled to continue his term until December 2009. Bullrich represents the PRO

Republican Proposal

Republican Proposal is a right-wing political party in Argentina. It is usually referred to as PRO. PRO was formed as an electoral alliance in 2005, but was transformed into a unitary party on 3 June 2010....

, a center-right political bloc. Bullrich and PRO are also allied with political blocs Commitment to Change

Commitment to Change

Commitment to Change is a centre-right political party in Argentina, principally active in the city of Buenos Aires.The party is led by Mauricio Macri, businessman and chairman of Boca Juniors football club. It has been active since he stood to be Mayor of Buenos Aires in 2003. He won the first...

 and Recrear.

In 2006 Bullrich was recognized as an Eisenhower Fellow in its Multi Nation Program 2006.http://eisenhowerfellowships.org/download/summaries/06/Esteban%20Bullrich%20summary.pdf This experience enabled him to meet American policy makers and study the US educational system with special attention on charter schools.

His strongest political interests as a deputy have been anti-government corruption and improving Argentine public education. Bullrich champions increased government transparency as a means to ending corruption.
Most recently, Bullrich has been in the press serving as an opposition congressman in the Skanska

Skanska

Skanska AB, is a multinational construction and development company based in Sweden, where it also is the largest construction company. The company's head office is in Solna, north of Stockholm.-History:...

corruption case where the Swedish construction and development company allegedly over-charged the Argentine government for the construction of a pipeline in northern Argentina.http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9154151 Bullrich is part of the team prosecuting the corruption embedded in the structure of Argentine government.