Jose Antonio Ocampo He would be the Minister of Finance of the cabinet of President-elect Gustavo Petro, according to several local media, academics and former ministers. Previously, he had been appointed a member of the leftist leader’s joint committee.
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The president-elect had made the formal proposal to Ocampo and was waiting for him to respond. For now, neither Petro nor Ocampo have made the appointment official.
Ocampo is economist from the University of Notre Dame (United States), and received a Ph.D. in Economics and Political Science from Yale University in 1976.
He currently works as a professor at Columbia University in the United States. The 69-year-old economist is co-author of books with the Nobel Prize in Economics José Stiglitz and has advocated a more “active” use of the exchange rate and has defended the tax on commodity exports.
The position is not foreign to him since he already held it in 1994, during the government of Ernesto Samper. Ocampo received the portfolio of Guillermo Perry and was also Minister of Agriculture and head of the National Planning Department.
He recently served as co-director of the Bank of the Republic.
It is known that he has a progressive liberal position that was made evident during his time at the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) as executive secretary.
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Until mid-2007 it was Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations for Economic and Social Affairs, from there he directed the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Desa), located at the headquarters of the world body in New York and chaired the Executive Committee of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN.
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