Oxfam International is delighted to announce the formal appointment of Guatemala's former Minister of Finance Dr. Juan Alberto Fuentes as its new chair.
Juan Alberto studied economics at the University of Toronto and gained a PhD from the University of Sussex. He was founder and director of the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies (ICEFI) and in 2008 became Minister for Finance in Guatemala. He later became a Regional Advisor of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and in 2012 became Director of the Division of Economic Development at ECLAC in Santiago, Chile. He took up a professorship of International Economics at the Universidad Rafael Landivar in Guatemala and also works as an independent consultant of public finance, economic integration and political economy.
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