Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera

Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera

66th Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia
In office 20 June 2003 – 7 March 2007
President	Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded by	Roberto Junguito Bonnet
Succeeded by	Óscar Iván Zuluaga Escobar

Personal details
Born	(1959-04-24) 24 April 1959 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Alma mater	University of the Andes (B.Sc.) University of Illinois (M.Sc., Ph.D)
Profession	Economist

Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera (Born April 24, 1959) is a Colombian economist who served as Minister of Finance and Public Credit under the government of President Álvaro Uribe.

Career

Technical Manager of the Bank of the Republic
Economist, Research leader for the Inter-American Development Bank.
Dean of the Economics Department at the University of the Andes.
Colombian Viceminister of Finance in 2002.
Was elected President of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Development Committee in 2005.
elected President of the Andean Fomenting Corporation Directorate since 2006.
(Inactive) member of the Latin American Financial Affairs Committee (CLAAF).
As Minister of Finance and Public Credit receives an honorary membership to the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia, President of the Executive Directorate of Bank of the Republic, member of the Executive Directorate of Ecopetrol and member of the Latin American Reserves Fund (FLAR)
Was a weekly columnist of the Colombian newspaper of El Espectador and El Tiempo in Bogotá.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 268247499 GND: 170284115

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