President Louis Abinader issued decree number 361-22 that positions Miguel Ceara Hatton and Pavel Isa Contreras as ministers of Environment and Natural Resourcesand of Economy, Planning and Developmentrespectively.
Who are the new appointees?
The Presidency of the Republic published the profiles of the new faces as owners of said entities, which we detail below:
Miguel Ceara Hatton is an economist, university professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) and researcher at the José Luis Alemán Center for Economic and Social Studies. His areas of professional interest are macroeconomyeconomic development, economic theory, public policy, and international economics and politics.
From 1996 to 2001 he held the position of Director of Trade, Tourism and Cooperation of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) in Trinidad and Tobago, being elected by the Foreign Ministers of the Greater Caribbean.
Between September 2003 and June 2011 he was the national coordinator of the Human Development Office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) being responsible for the National Human Development Report. In addition, she was a member of the International Editorial Board of the Latin American Journal of Human Development (Humanun).
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Between 2002 and 2003 he was the director of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mirex) and advisor to the Foreign Minister on trade issues. Ceara Hatton is the National Technical and Public Policy Secretary of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).
He has been a consultant to several international organizations and countries. He is a member of the Board of Editors of several international economics and social science journals. He was president of the Dominican College of Economists (CODECO) from 1982 to 1984 and of the Association of Caribbean Economists from 1990 to 1996.
While, Pavel Ernesto Isa Contreras, who is now Minister of Economy, is a research professor at INTEC for the ODCI. He also has a master’s degree in Economic Policy from the National University (UNA) of Costa Rica, a Postgraduate Degree in Social Sciences with a specialization in International Relations in the Caribbean from FLACSO, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts in the United States.
In 2003 he became an economic advisor to the Secretary of State for Finance of the Dominican Republic and in 2004 an advisor on Trade, Exchange and Tax Policies of the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency (STP).
In 2006, he was appointed Country Director of the World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations, a position he held until 2008, when he assumed the coordination of research for the UNDP Provincial Human Development Reports.
As of 2011, he works as a Research Professor at INTEC for the Dominican Observatory of International Trade (ODCI), and Permanent Consultant and Coordinator of the project “Alliances for Economic Empowerment” of the Latin American Center for Rural Development (RIMISP).
As a teacher, he has taught undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Public Finance, International Economics, Dominican Economics, Human Development, among others, for academic institutions such as INTEC, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Universidad Católica Santo Domingo, Latin American Faculty of Sciences. Social (FLACSO), Central American University (UCA) of Nicaragua and the University of Massachusetts, United States.
