Alfonso Prat-Gay
Alfonso Prat-Gay | |
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| Minister of the Treasury and Public Finances of Argentina | |
| In office 10 December 2015 – 2 January 2017 | |
| President | Mauricio Macri |
| Preceded by | Axel Kicillof |
| Succeeded by | Luis Caputo (Finance) Nicolás Dujovne (Treasury) |
| President of the Central Bank | |
| In office 11 December 2002 – 24 September 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Aldo Pignanelli |
| Succeeded by | Martín Redrado |
| National Deputy | |
| In office 10 December 2009 – 10 December 2013 | |
| Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 November 1965 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party | Civic Coalition ARI (2009-2013) Radical Civic Union (2015–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Cambiemos (2015–present) Broad Front UNEN (2013) Social and Civic Agreement (2009–2013) |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina University of Pennsylvania |
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Alfonso Prat-Gay (born 24 November 1965) is an Argentine economist and politician. Following the election of Mauricio Macri to the presidency on 2015, he became Minister of Economy.
He was also President of the Central Bank of Argentina from December 2002 to September 2004, and was elected National Deputy for the Civic Coalition in the 2009 elections.
A decade later, as Minister of Economy in the Macri administration, he lifted four-year-old capital controls on the Argentine currency, a mere six days after taking office.
His work earned him Euromoney's Central Bank Governor of the Year award. Prat-Gay is also a member of Washington D.C.–based think tank, The Inter-American Dialogue.
He is considered an orthodox liberal who has a good image in the markets and fluent contacts abroad. However, Prat-Gay has been a political ally to leftist Victoria Donda and some economists like Javier Milei consider him to be a socialist or a socialdemocrat.