Nicolás Trotta

Nicolás Trotta
Minister of Education
In office
10 December 2019  20 September 2021
PresidentAlberto Fernández
Preceded byAlejandro Finocchiaro
Succeeded byJaime Perczyk
Undersecretary of Administrative Technologies
In office
10 December 2007  6 August 2009
Preceded byOffice created
Succeeded byEduardo Thill
Personal details
Born
Nicolás Alfredo Trotta

(1976-01-20) 20 January 1976
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political partyIndependent (since 2004)
New Leadership (1997–2004)
Other political
affiliations
Front for Victory (2004–2009)
Frente de Todos (2019–present)
Alma materUniversity of Belgrano

Nicolás Alfredo Trotta (born 20 January 1976) is an Argentine politician. He was Argentina's Minister of Education from 10 December 2019 to 20 September 2021, in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.

From 2014 to 2019, he was rector of the Metropolitan University for Education and Labour (UMET), the private university of the Doorkeepers' Union (SUTERH). Before that, from 2007 to 2009, he was Undersecretary of Administrative Technologies, reporting directly to the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers – first Alberto Fernández, then Sergio Massa, and finally Aníbal Fernández. He was also briefly director of YPF, Argentina's main oil and gas company.