The President Luis Abinader appointed Miguel Ceara Hatton as Superintendent of Health and Occupational Risks through decree 489-24.
Profile of Miguel Ceara Hatton
National Secretary of Public Policies of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) since 2016 current.
Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic from July 8, 2022 to August 16, 2024.
Minister of Economy, Planning and Development from August 16, 2020 to July 7, 2022.
Dominican economist with areas of professional interest in Macroeconomics, Economic Development, Economic Theory, Public Policies and Economics, and International Politics.
Graduated in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), specializing in Development and Econometrics.
Researcher at the José Luis Alemán Center for Economic and Social Studies of the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), and professor from 2011 to 2020.
His main area of research has been Dominican economic development and he has been a consultant in the economic field for international organizations and the private sector.
He was the national coordinator of the Human Development Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), responsible for the National Human Development Report, between 2002 and 2010.
He was Director of International Organizations at the State Secretariat for Foreign Affairs (SRE) and advisor to the Foreign Minister on trade issues, with the rank of ambassador, from 2002 to 2003.
Between 1996 and 2001, he was director of the economic area of the Association of Caribbean States (AEC) based in Trinidad and Tobago, responsible for Trade, Tourism and Cooperation.
He was director of the Caribbean Economic Research Center (CIECA) between 1987-1996, based in Santo Domingo.
He worked as a technician at the Secretariat of Programming and Budget of Mexico, in the area of national accounts between 1980-1981.
During the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, he was a consultant and advisor for the Institute for Cooperation in Agricultural Sciences (IICA-OAS), the Regional Employment Program for Latin America and the Caribbean (PREALC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Office of Cultural Heritage, the Dominican Confederation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (CODOPYME), and private companies.
University professor
He has been a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), at the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC), Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) and the Catholic University of Santo Domingo.
Author of books
He has been the author, co-author and editor of 11 books on the Dominican economy and the economies of the Caribbean, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Throughout his professional life, he has been an occasional or regular columnist in several national and international newspapers.
