President-elect Gustavo Petro ccontinues with the formation of his cabinet and, this Thursday, July 7, he announced his new Minister of Education.
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The portfolio will be occupied by Alexander Gaviria, who was a presidential candidate in the Centro Esperanza coalition and announced his support for the elected president in the final stretch of the presidential campaign.
Gaviria already knows what it means to be a Minister of Government, since he was in the Ministry of Health during the government of Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018). He held the position between 2012 and 2018.
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His closest relationship with education is given by his time at the rectory of the University of the Andes, institution he directed between 2019 and 2021.
During his professional career, Gaviria has also been deputy director of the National Planning Department and director of the Center for Sustainable Development Goals for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cods).
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In 2010, Portfolio, in its Portfolio Awards, awarded him as the Best University Professor for his work at the Universidad de los Andes.
Gaviria is a civil engineer and has a master’s degree and a doctorate in economics, so much of his career has been linked to the economic sector.
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