Minister of Economy of Argentina

The Minister of Economy is the head of the Ministry of Economy and Production of Argentina

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...

, concerned with finance and monetary matters. The position within the Government of Argentina

Government of Argentina

The government of Argentina, functioning within the framework of a federal system, is a presidential representative democratic republic. The President of Argentina is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President. Legislative power is vested in both the...

 is analogous to the finance minister

Finance minister

The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.A minister of finance has many different jobs in a government. He or she helps form the government budget, stimulate the economy, and control finances...

s of some countries and the United States Treasury Secretary. The Minister is a member of the President's Cabinet.

Headquarters

The Argentine Minister of the Economy has, since the building's 1939 inaugural, been based in a 14-story Rationalist

Rationalism (architecture)

The intellectual principles of rationalism are based on architectural theory. Vitruvius had already established in his work De Architectura that architecture is a science that can be comprehended rationally. This formulation was taken up and further developed in the architectural treatises of the...

 office building designed by local architect Carlos Pibernat. The Economy Ministry building was built on a 0.57 ha (1.4 ac) Montserrat

Montserrat, Buenos Aires

Monserrat is a neighbourhood located in the east of the Buenos Aires CBD. The district features some of the most important public buildings in Buenos Aires, including city hall, the city legislature, Casa Rosada, the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and the Libertador Building , among...

 neighborhood lot facing the Casa Rosada

Casa Rosada

La Casa Rosada is the official seat of the executive branch of the government of Argentina, and of the offices of the President. The President normally lives at the Quinta de Olivos, a compound in Olivos, Buenos Aires Province. Its characteristic color is pink, and is considered one of the most...

 presidential office building to the north, and the Defense Ministry (Libertador Building

Libertador Building

The Libertador Building is a government building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, housing the Ministry of Defense.-Overview:...

) to the easta government building also designed by Pibernat.

The building's lobby was decorated with murals painted by the architect's brother, Antonio Pibernat, a post-impressionist painter influenced by the naturalist Barbizon School

Barbizon school

The Barbizon school of painters were part of a movement towards realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870...

.

The post has existed on a formal basis since the 1826 inaugural of Bernardino Rivadavia

Bernardino Rivadavia

Bernardino de la Trinidad Gónzalez Rivadavia y Rivadavia was the first president of Argentina, from February 8, 1826 to July 7, 1827 . He was a politician of the United Provinces of Río de la Plata, Argentina today...

, who named lawmaker Salvador María del Carril

Salvador María del Carril

Salvador María del Carril was a prominent Argentine jurist and policy-maker, as well as his country's first Vice President-Early life:...

 as the nation's first official Ministro de Hacienda. The office became among the most powerful in Argentine Government during the generation after 1880

Generation of '80

The Generation of '80 was the governing elite in Argentina from 1880 to 1916. Members of the oligarchy of the provinces and the country's capital, they first joined the League of Governors , and then the National Autonomist Party...

, when English Argentine investment, foreign trade

Foreign trade of Argentina

-Modern history:Agriculturally productive and thinly populated, Argentina recorded trade surpluses for most of the period between 1900 and 1948, including a cumulative US$1 billion during World War I and US$1.7 billion during World War II. Record taxes on grain exports imposed by the...

, and immigration spurred development. Customs

Customs

Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties and for controlling the flow of goods including animals, transports, personal effects and hazardous items in and out of a country...

 collections (source of over half of public revenues at the time) and the Central Bank were among the responsibilities placed under the Economy Ministry's aegis, and successive ministers' policies were often enacted through presidential decrees.

Its influence grew further when it absorbed the cabinet post of Minister of Public Works in 1991, to help facilitate Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo

Domingo Cavallo

Domingo Felipe "Mingo" Cavallo is an Argentine economist and politician. He has a long history of public service and is known for implementing the Convertibilidad plan, which fixed the dollar-peso exchange rate at 1:1 between 1991 and 2001, which brought the Argentine inflation rate down from over...

's privatization

Privatization

Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector to the private sector or to private non-profit organizations...

s initiative, and, in turn, divested oversight over the nation's goods-producing sectors with the 2008 designation of the Production Ministry by President Cristina Kirchner, in a bid to improve strained relations with the country's agrarian sector

Agriculture in Argentina

Agriculture is one of the bases of Argentina's economy.Argentine agriculture is relatively capital intensive, today providing about 7% of all employment, and, even during its period of dominance around 1900, accounting for no more than a third of all labor. Having accounted for nearly 20% of GDP as...

 following the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector

2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector

The 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector started in March 2008, which then extended into a prolonged period of turbulent politics...

 over export tariffs.

The Ministry of the Economy was appropriated a US$1.7 billion operational budget in 2009, and employed over 4,000 staffers.

List of Ministers since 1946

Minister	Period	President
Amado Boudou Amado Boudou Amado Boudou is an Argentine businessman and government policy maker who serves as Minister of the Economy since 2009. He was elected Vice President of Argentina as running mate of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the 2011 general election.-Early life and career:Amado Boudou was born in Mar del...	07.07.09 - incumbent	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner , commonly known as Cristina Fernández or Cristina Kirchner is the 55th and current President of Argentina and the widow of former President Néstor Kirchner. She is Argentina's first elected female president, and the second female president ever to serve...
Carlos Fernández Carlos Rafael Fernández Carlos Rafael Fernández is an Argentine economist and was, from April 2008 to July 2009, the President's Minister of the Economy....	25.04.08 - 07.07.09	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner , commonly known as Cristina Fernández or Cristina Kirchner is the 55th and current President of Argentina and the widow of former President Néstor Kirchner. She is Argentina's first elected female president, and the second female president ever to serve...
Martín Lousteau Martín Lousteau Martín Lousteau was the Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina under the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, from December 10, 2007, until April 24, 2008...	10.12.07 - 24.04.08	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner , commonly known as Cristina Fernández or Cristina Kirchner is the 55th and current President of Argentina and the widow of former President Néstor Kirchner. She is Argentina's first elected female president, and the second female president ever to serve...
Miguel Gustavo Peirano Miguel Gustavo Peirano Miguel Gustavo Peirano is an Argentine economist, and former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina. He was appointed by President Néstor Kirchner on July 16, 2007, in place of Felisa Miceli....	16.07.07 - 10.12.07	Néstor Kirchner Néstor Kirchner Néstor Carlos Kirchner was an Argentine politician who served as the 54th President of Argentina from 25 May 2003 until 10 December 2007. Previously, he was Governor of Santa Cruz Province since 10 December 1991. He briefly served as Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations ...
Felisa Miceli Felisa Miceli Felisa Miceli is an Argentine economist, and a former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina...	28.11.05 - 16.07.07	Néstor Kirchner Néstor Kirchner Néstor Carlos Kirchner was an Argentine politician who served as the 54th President of Argentina from 25 May 2003 until 10 December 2007. Previously, he was Governor of Santa Cruz Province since 10 December 1991. He briefly served as Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations ...
Roberto Lavagna Roberto Lavagna Roberto Lavagna is an Argentine economist and politician, and was the former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina from April 27, 2002, to November 28, 2005.-Career:...	25.05.03 - 27.11.05	Néstor Kirchner Néstor Kirchner Néstor Carlos Kirchner was an Argentine politician who served as the 54th President of Argentina from 25 May 2003 until 10 December 2007. Previously, he was Governor of Santa Cruz Province since 10 December 1991. He briefly served as Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations ...
Roberto Lavagna Roberto Lavagna Roberto Lavagna is an Argentine economist and politician, and was the former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina from April 27, 2002, to November 28, 2005.-Career:...	27.04.02 - 25.05.03	Eduardo Duhalde Eduardo Duhalde -External links:...
Jorge Remes Lenicov	01.03.02 - 27.04.02	Eduardo Duhalde Eduardo Duhalde -External links:...
Rodolfo Frigeri	23.12.01 - 30.12.01	Adolfo Rodríguez Saá Adolfo Rodríguez Saá Adolfo Rodríguez Saá Páez Montero is an Argentine Peronist politician. He was the governor of the province of San Luis during several terms, and briefly served as President of Argentina.-Biography:...
Jorge Capitanich Jorge Capitanich Jorge Milton Capitanich is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician from Chaco Province, currently the governor of that province...	21.12.01 - 23.12.01	Ramón Puerta Ramón Puerta Federico Ramón Puerta is an Argentine Peronist politician who has served as a governor, senator and national deputy and effectively acted as President of Argentina during 2001.-Biography:...
Domingo Cavallo Domingo Cavallo Domingo Felipe "Mingo" Cavallo is an Argentine economist and politician. He has a long history of public service and is known for implementing the Convertibilidad plan, which fixed the dollar-peso exchange rate at 1:1 between 1991 and 2001, which brought the Argentine inflation rate down from over...	20.03.01 - 19.12.01	Fernando de la Rúa Fernando de la Rúa Fernando de la Rúa is an Argentine politician. He was president of the country from December 10, 1999 to December 21, 2001 for the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education ....
Ricardo López Murphy Ricardo López Murphy Ricardo Hipólito López Murphy is an Argentine economist and politician.-Career:López Murphy was born in Adrogué, Buenos Aires Province. He attended the National University of La Plata, where he was awarded the title of "Licenciado en Economía" in 1975...	05.03.01 - 19.03.01	Fernando de la Rúa Fernando de la Rúa Fernando de la Rúa is an Argentine politician. He was president of the country from December 10, 1999 to December 21, 2001 for the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education ....
José Luis Machinea José Luis Machinea José Luis Machinea is an Argentine economist and United Nations official.-Career:Machinea was born in Buenos Aires, and earned a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Argentina in 1968. He first entered public service in 1974, as a member of the Central Bank's Center for Montary and...	10.12.99 - 02.03.01	Fernando de la Rúa Fernando de la Rúa Fernando de la Rúa is an Argentine politician. He was president of the country from December 10, 1999 to December 21, 2001 for the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education ....
Roque Fernández Roque Fernández Roque Benjamín Fernández is an Argentine economist, former President of the Central Bank, and Economy Minister, as well as the only member of the Chicago Boys ever to have been the chief economic policy maker in Argentina....	06.08.96 - 10.12.99	Carlos Saúl Menem
Domingo Cavallo Domingo Cavallo Domingo Felipe "Mingo" Cavallo is an Argentine economist and politician. He has a long history of public service and is known for implementing the Convertibilidad plan, which fixed the dollar-peso exchange rate at 1:1 between 1991 and 2001, which brought the Argentine inflation rate down from over...	01.03.91 - 06.08.96	Carlos Saúl Menem
Antonio Erman González	19.12.89 - 04.02.91	Carlos Saúl Menem
Néstor Rapanelli	18.07.89 - 18.12.89	Carlos Saúl Menem
Miguel Roig	09.07.89 - 17.07.89	Carlos Saúl Menem
Jesús Rodríguez	14.05.89 - 08.07.89	Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín
Juan Carlos Pugliese	31.03.89 - 14.05.89	Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín
Juan Vital Sourrouille	19.02.85 - 31.03.89	Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín
Bernardo Grinspun	10.12.83 - 18.02.85	Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín
Jorge Wehbe Jorge Wehbe Jorge Wehbe was an Argentine lawyer and economist....	25.08.82 - 09.12.83	Reynaldo Bignone Reynaldo Bignone Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone is an Argentine general who served as dictatorial President of Argentina from July 1, 1982 to December 10, 1983. In 2010, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the kidnappings, torture, and murders of the Dirty War.-Early career:Reynaldo Benito...
José María Dagnino Pastore	02.07.82 - 24.08.82	Reynaldo Bignone Reynaldo Bignone Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone is an Argentine general who served as dictatorial President of Argentina from July 1, 1982 to December 10, 1983. In 2010, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the kidnappings, torture, and murders of the Dirty War.-Early career:Reynaldo Benito...
Roberto Alemann Roberto Alemann Roberto Alemann is an Argentine lawyer, economist, publisher and academic.-Career:Alemann was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1922. His family, prominent German Argentines of Swiss extraction, had established the nation's premier German language daily, Argentinisches Tageblatt, in 1874...	22.12.81 - 30.06.82	Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri
Lorenzo Sigaut	01.04.81 - 20.12.81	Roberto Viola
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz was an Argentine executive and policy maker. He served as Minister of the Economy under de facto President Jorge Rafael Videla between 1976 and 1981, and shaped economic policy during the self-styled National Reorganization Process military dictatorship.-Early...	29.03.76 - 31.03.81	Jorge Rafael Videla Jorge Rafael Videla Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo is a former senior commander in the Argentine Army who was the de facto President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. He came to power in a coup d'état that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón...
Juan Las Heras	24.03.76 - 29.03.76	Junta Militar
Emilio Mondelli	03.02.76 - 24.03.76	María Estela Martínez de Perón
Antonio Cafiero Antonio Cafiero Antonio Francisco Cafiero is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician.-Biography:Cafiero was born in Buenos Aires. He joined Catholic Action in 1938, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, becoming President of the Students' Association...	14.08.75 - 03.02.76
Ernesto Corvalán Nanclares	11.08.75 - 14.08.75
Pedro Bonanni	22.07.75 - 11.08.75
Ernesto Corvalán Nanclares	17.07.75 - 22.07.75
Celestino Rodrigo	02.06.75 - 17.07.75
Alfredo Gomez Morales	21.10.74 - 02.06.75
José Ber Gelbard José Ber Gelbard José Ber Gelbard was an Argentine activist and politician.-Career:Gelbard was born in Radomsko, Poland, in 1917. In 1930 Gelbard emigrated to Argentina with his parents and siblings. They settled in Tucumán, north of Buenos Aires. Those were tough times and Gelbard had to make a living as a...	1.07.74 - 21.10.74
	12.10.73 - 1.07.74	Juan Domingo Perón
	13.07.73 - 12.10.73	Raúl Lastiri
	25.05.73 - 13.07.73	Héctor José Cámpora Héctor José Cámpora Héctor José Cámpora Demaestre was president of Argentina from 25 May until 13 July 1973.Cámpora, affectionately known as el Tío , was born in the city of Mercedes, in the Province of Buenos Aires...
Jorge Wehbe Jorge Wehbe Jorge Wehbe was an Argentine lawyer and economist....	13.10.72 - 25.05.73	Alejandro Agustín Lanusse Alejandro Agustín Lanusse Alejandro Agustín Lanusse Gelly was the 38th president of the Argentine Republic between March 22, 1971 and May 25, 1973, during the penultimate military dictatorship.- Career :...
Cayetano Antonio Licciardo Cayetano Antonio Licciardo Cayetano Antonio Licciardo was an Argentine politician....	11.10.71 - 13.10.72
Juan A. Quilici	01.06.71- 11.10.71
Aldo Ferrer Aldo Ferrer Aldo Ferrer is a prominent Argentine economist and policy maker.-Early career:Aldo Ferrer was born in Buenos Aires in 1927, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires School of Economics, where he received a Doctorate in 1949...	26.10.70 - 28.05.71	Roberto Marcelo Levingston
Carlos Moyano Llerena	18.06.70 - 15.10.70
José Dagnino Pastore	11.06.69 - 17.06.70	Juan Carlos Onganía Juan Carlos Onganía Juan Carlos Onganía Carballo was de facto president of Argentina from 29 June 1966 to 8 June 1970. He rose to power as military dictator after toppling, in a coup d’état self-named Revolución Argentina , the democratically elected president Arturo Illia .-Economic and social...
Adalbert Krieger Vasena	03.01.67- 11.06.69
Jorge Salimei	04.10.66 - 03.01.67
Juan Carlos Pugliese	19.08.64 - 28.06.66	Arturo Umberto Illia Arturo Umberto Illia Arturo Umberto Illia was President of Argentina from October 12, 1963, to June 28, 1966, and a member of the centrist UCR.-Biography:Arturo Umberto Illia was born August 4, 1900 in Pergamino, Buenos Aires Province, to Emma Francesconi and Martín Illia, Italian Argentine immigrants from the...
Eugenio Blanco	12.10.63 - 05.08.64
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz was an Argentine executive and policy maker. He served as Minister of the Economy under de facto President Jorge Rafael Videla between 1976 and 1981, and shaped economic policy during the self-styled National Reorganization Process military dictatorship.-Early...	21.05.63 - 12.10.63	José María Guido José María Guido José María Guido was an interim President of Argentina from 30 March 1962 to 12 October 1963.Guido was elected to the Argentine Senate for Río Negro Province in 1958, representing the Intransigent Radical Civic Union...
Eustaquio Méndez Delfino	10.12.62 - 13.05.63
Álvaro Alsogaray Álvaro Alsogaray Álvaro Carlos Alsogaray was an Argentine politician and businessman. Minister of Economy during much of the 1959-62 period, he was one of the principal proponents of economic conservatism in modern Argentina.-Early career:...	30.06.62 - 10.12.62
Federico Pinedo	06.04.62 - 25.04.62
Jorge Wehbe Jorge Wehbe Jorge Wehbe was an Argentine lawyer and economist....	29.03.62 - 06.04.62
	26.03.62 - 06.04.62	Arturo Frondizi Arturo Frondizi Arturo Frondizi Ercoli was the President of Argentina between May 1, 1958, and March 29, 1962, for the Intransigent Radical Civic Union.-Early life:Frondizi was born in Paso de los Libres, Corrientes Province...
Carlos Coll Benegas	15.01.62- 26.03.62
Roberto Alemann Roberto Alemann Roberto Alemann is an Argentine lawyer, economist, publisher and academic.-Career:Alemann was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1922. His family, prominent German Argentines of Swiss extraction, had established the nation's premier German language daily, Argentinisches Tageblatt, in 1874...	26.04.61 - 12.01.62
Álvaro Alsogaray Álvaro Alsogaray Álvaro Carlos Alsogaray was an Argentine politician and businessman. Minister of Economy during much of the 1959-62 period, he was one of the principal proponents of economic conservatism in modern Argentina.-Early career:...	25.06.59 - 26.04.61
Emilio Donato del Carril	17.06.58 - 24.06.59
Adalberto Krieger Vasena	26.03.57 - 01.05.58	Pedro Aramburu
Roberto Verrier	26.01.57 - 26.03.57
Eugenio Blanco	14.11.55 - 25.01.57
Eugenio Folcini	24.09.55 - 13.11.55	Eduardo Lonardi Eduardo Lonardi Eduardo A. Lonardi Doucet served as de facto president of Argentina from September 23, 1955 until November 13, 1955.-Biography:He was born on September 15, 1896....
Pedro Bonanni	04.06.52 - 20.09.55	Juan Domingo Perón
Ramón Cereijo	04.06.46 - 04.06.52

External links

Ministry of Economy - Official ministry portal Argentina.gov.ar - Official national portal Gobierno Electrónico - Official government website Presidencia de la Nación - Official presidential website