100 Notable alumni of
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
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The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru is 405th in the world, 10th in Latin America, and 2nd in Peru by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alan García
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- writerlawyerpoliticiansociologistjurist
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Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party and to date the only party member ever to have served as President. Mentored by the founder of the APRA, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, he served in the Constituent Assembly of 1978–1979. Elected to the Peruvian Congress in 1980, he rose to the position of General Secretary of the APRA in 1982, and was subsequently elected to the presidency in 1985 in a landslide victory at the age of 35 years.
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Ollanta Humala
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- politicianinternational forum participantmilitary officer
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Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso is a Peruvian politician and former military officer who served as President of Peru from 2011 to 2016. Originally a socialist and left-wing nationalist, he is considered to have shifted towards neoliberalism and the political centre during his presidency.
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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991. He later served as Prime Minister of Peru from 2000 to 2001.
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Jaime Bayly
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- journalistwritercolumnisttelevision presenter
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Jaime Bayly Letts [ˈxajme ˈβejli lets] is a Peruvian writer, journalist and television personality.
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Julio Ramón Ribeyro
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- diplomatjournalistwriter
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Julio Ramón Ribeyro Zúñiga was a Peruvian writer best known for his short stories. He was also successful in other genres: novel, essay, theater, diary and aphorism. In the year of his death, he was awarded the US$100,000 Premio Juan Rulfo de literatura latinoamericana y del Caribe. His work has been translated into numerous languages, including English.
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Mario Testino
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- fashion photographerphotographer
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Mario Eduardo Testino Silva OBE HonFRPS is a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer.
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Diego Bertie
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- singeractormodel
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Diego Felipe Bertie Brignardello was a Peruvian actor and singer. His performances spanned in film, theatre and television. He studied at Markham College in Lima, Peru and was also a singer in the mid eighties and had a pop group called Imágenes.
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Salvador del Solar
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- actorlawyerstage actortelevision actorfilm director
- Biography
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Salvador Alejandro Jorge del Solar Labarthe is a Peruvian actor, director and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Peru from March to September 2019, in President Martín Vizcarra's administration.
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Julio Guzmán Cáceres
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- politician
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Julio Armando Guzmán Cáceres is a Peruvian economist, politician, and leader of the Purple Party who ran for President in the 2021 general elections getting just over 2% of valid votes. He was formerly the leader of the All for Peru political party, running for president for the party in the 2016 general elections, but was disqualified, due to the irregularities of the nomination process.
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Javier Heraud
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- Studied in 1958-1963
- Occupations
- poetwriterteacher
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Javier Heraud Pérez was a Peruvian poet and member of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). In his early life he studied at Markham College and later he continued his studies at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
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Alfredo Barnechea
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- journalistwriterpolitician
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Isaac Alfredo Barnechea García is a Peruvian journalist and politician. In the 2016 elections, he ran for President of Peru under the Acción Popular party, finishing in fourth place. He was among the potential candidates for the 2021 general election until he withdrew his pre-candidacy in November 2020. The nomination was subsequently won by Yonhy Lescano.
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Nadine Heredia
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- sociologistpolitician
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Nadine Heredia Alarcón de Humala is a Peruvian politician. As the wife of President of Peru Ollanta Humala, she served as the First Lady of Peru from 2011 to 2016. The President of the Peruvian Nationalist Party (PNP), which formed the Peru Wins electoral alliance in 2011, Heredia is seen as a highly influential figure in Peruvian politics. She has headed the PNP since December 2013.
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Fernando de Szyszlo
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- artistpainter
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Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar was a Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher who was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru.
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Aldo Miyashiro
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- film directortelevision actorscreenwriteractor
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Aldo Marcos Miyashiro Ribeiro is a Peruvian actor, screenwriter, playwright, film director and presenter. Known mainly for his roles as Caradura in the Misterio series and Tony Blades in the series La gran sangre, and also for leading his TV show La Banda del Chino. In addition, he is the director of the films Attacked: The Theory of Pain (2015), Once machos (2017), Bleed. Scream. Beat! (2017), Once machos 2 (2019) & Wake Show (2020)
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Martín Adán
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- writerpoet
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Martín Adán, pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was a Peruvian poet whose body of work is notable for its hermeticism and metaphysical depth.
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Mirtha Vásquez
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- politicianlawyer
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Mirtha Esther Vásquez Chuquilín is a Peruvian attorney and politician who served as prime minister of Peru from 6 October 2021 to 31 January 2022. Previously, she briefly served in Congress for the complementary term between March 2020 and July 2021, representing the constituency of Cajamarca as an independent within the Broad Front parliamentary caucus.
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Luis Castañeda Lossio
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- politicianlawyer
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Óscar Luis Castañeda Lossio was a Peruvian politician who was the Mayor of Lima, the capital city of Peru, from 2003 to 2010. He became Mayor of Lima again in 2015, after being elected for a third nonconsecutive term with 51% of the popular vote, for a term that lasted until 31 December 2018. He ran for President of Peru twice, in the 2000 elections placing fifth, prior to his mayoral campaign in 2002, and in the 2011 elections, placing fifth again with 9.8% of the vote.
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Eliane Karp
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- university teacherpoliticiananthropologist
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Eliane Chantal Karp Fernenbug de Toledo is a Peruvian anthropologist. She was the First Lady of Peru from 2001 to 2006, as the wife of the erstwhile Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo. She specializes in the study of Andean indigenous cultures.
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Jorge Muñoz
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- politicianlawyer
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Jorge Vicente Martín Muñoz Wells is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Lima from January 2019 until his removal from office by the National Jury of Elections in April 2022. He previously served as mayor of Miraflores from 2011 to 2018.
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Sixto Paz Wells
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- ufologistwriter
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Sixto Paz Wells is an author and lecturer focused on the UFO phenomena, particularly alien contact, from a spiritual viewpoint. Known as the visible head of the Rahma Mission in Spain and a number of Latin American countries, stands out among the ufologists for having summoned the international press to sightings scheduled in advance in more than ten occasions. As a self proclaimed contactee, he has published 20 books in Spanish and one in English about this subject so far (July 2017). In his works about UFOlogy he promotes a systematic method of physical and mental preparation for contact, as well as protocols for documenting, validating and confirming contact experiences.
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Antero Flores Aráoz
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- politicianlawyer
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Ántero Flores-Aráoz Esparza is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Peru in November 2020. Once a prominent member and leader of the Christian People's Party, he left and founded the Order Party in order to run for the presidency at the 2016 general election, in which he placed tenth and last with 0.4% of the popular vote.
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Santiago Roncagliolo
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- linguistwriterscreenwriter
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Santiago Rafael Roncagliolo Lohmann is a Peruvian writer, screenwriter, translator, and journalist. He has written five novels about fear. He is also author of a trilogy of non-fiction books on Latin America during the twentieth century.
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Francisco Tudela
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- politicianlawyer
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Francisco Antonio Gregorio Tudela van Breugel-Douglas is a Peruvian scholar, diplomat and politician. A former Fujimorist politician and diplomat, he briefly served as the First Vice President of Peru between 28 July 2000 to 21 November 2000, during the brief third term of Alberto Fujimori and also as a Congressman between 2000 and 2001. He also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs during the Fujimori administration and as a member of the Democratic Constituent Congress between 1992 and 1995.
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Pedro Cateriano
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- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
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Pedro Álvaro Cateriano Bellido is a peruvian lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Peru from July to August 2020, under Martín Vizcarra's administration. He previously served as Ollanta Humala's minister of defense from July 2012 to April 2015, and prime minister from April 2015 to July 2016.
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Harold Forsyth
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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
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Harold Winston Forsyth Mejía is a Peruvian diplomat and former politician who has served as Peru's ambassador to the United States, Italy, Colombia, the People's Republic of China and Japan. From 1995 until 2000, he sat for one term in the Congress of the Republic of Peru.
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Mauricio Mulder
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- 1973-1978 graduated with Licentiate in law
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Claude Maurice Mulder Bedoya, known as Mauricio Mulder, is a Peruvian politician, lawyer and former journalist. One of the most prominent and influential members of the Peruvian Aprista Party, he was Congressman from 2001 to 2019, representing Lima. From 2004 to 2010, he held the office of party Secretary General.
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Rocío Silva-Santisteban
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- poetdocentwriterpolitician
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Rocío Yolanda Angélica Silva-Santisteban Manrique is a Peruvian poet, academic, activist, and journalist. Since March 2020, she serves as a Member of Congress for the Lima constituency representing the Broad Front. Previously, she served as Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Coordinator.
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Javier Díez Canseco
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- LGBTQI+ rights activistpoliticiansociologist
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Javier Diez Canseco Cisneros was a Peruvian politician and member of the Peruvian Congress representing the Socialist Party of Peru (PS), of which he was a founding member and also served as its Party President.
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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- In 1979 graduated with Master's degree in humanities and social sciences
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- historianwriteruniversity teachersociologist
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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian feminist, sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist. She is Emeritus Professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia, where she taught Sociology for over thirty years. She draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quechua and Aymara cosmologies. She is a former director and longtime member of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina (Workshop on Andean Oral History). The Taller de Historia Oral Andina has conducted an ongoing critique of Western epistemologies through writings and activism for nearly two decades. She is also an activist who works directly with indigenous movements in Bolivia, such as the Katarista movement and the coca growers movement.
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Marisa Glave
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- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Marisa Glave Remy is a Peruvian sociologist and politician. She served in the Peruvian Congress from 2016 to 2019. Previously, she was Lima City Councilwoman, and was a founding member of the Earth and Freedom movement, currently named Broad Front for Justice, Liberty and Life.
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Gino Costa
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Gino Francisco Costa Santolalla is a Peruvian politician who is an Independent Congressman caucusing with the Purple Party, representing the constituency of Lima.
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Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde, is a Peruvian lawyer and politician belonging to the Popular Action and a former Congressman representing Lima between 2006 and 2019. He was president of the Popular Action from 2004 to 2009.
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Pedro Francke
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- Graduated with master's degree in economics
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Pedro Andrés Toribio Topiltzin Francke Ballvé is a Peruvian economist who served as the minister of economy and finance from 30 July 2021 to 1 February 2022. He has advised various politicians within Peru and is an expert on poverty, health and social policies studies.
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Alberto Beingolea
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Alberto Ismael Beingolea Delgado is a Peruvian politician, who was the President of the Christian People's Party between 2017 and 2021. He is a former Congressman, representing Lima between 2011 and 2016. Before entering politics, he was a journalist and sports commentator.
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Violeta Bermúdez
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Violeta Bermúdez Valdivia is a Peruvian lawyer, writer and diplomat. On 18 November 2020, Bermúdez became the Prime Minister of Peru. Previously, she held positions in the United States Agency for International Development and worked during the cabinets of President Alejandro Toledo and Prime Minister Beatriz Merino.
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Martha Chávez
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- politician
- Biography
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Martha Gladys Chávez Cossío de Ocampo is a Peruvian Fujimorist politician and lawyer. A historical and a prominent figure of Fujimorism, she has served in Congress for six-non consecutive terms from 1995 to 2006 and from 2011 to 2016, and since 2020 to finish the 2016–2021 that was interrupted by the dissolution of Congress. In the 2006 elections, she ran for the presidency, running on the Fujimorist Alliance for the Future ticket, but she lost, placing fourth in the election.
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Alonso Cueto
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- university teacherwriterscreenwriterjournalistacademic
- Biography
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Alonso Cueto Caballero is a Peruvian author, university professor and newspaper columnist.
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Jorge del Castillo
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jorge Alfonso Alejandro del Castillo Gálvez is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. In his career, he has served in the now abolished Peruvian Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 1992, in the unicameral Congress of the Republic for six non-consecutive terms, between 1995 and 2011 and again from 2016 to 2019, five of which are consecutive terms, and as Mayor of Lima and the District of Barranco during the 1980s.
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Joaquín de Orbegoso
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- television actoractor
- Biography
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Joaquín de Orbegoso Seoane is a Peruvian actor of Spanish descent most known for his role in the TV series Al Fondo Hay Sitio.
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Fernando Iwasaki
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- historianwritercolumnistnovelistjournalist
- Biography
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Fernando Iwasaki Cauti is a Peruvian writer and historian.
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Luis Carranza
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- bankerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Luis Julián Martín Carranza Ugarte is a Peruvian economist, banker and academic. He served as Minister of Economy and Finance of Peru in the second presidency of Alan García, from July 2006 to July 2008 and from January to December 2009. During his first tenure, he championed several structural economic reforms that proved extremely successful. Peru achieved their highest continued average growth rates in recent history (8% average), the FTA with the USA was signed, technology and productivity gains in the country were the highest ever in recorded Peruvian history (40% yearly increments in capital investment), and poverty dropped dramatically (from 52% to 34% of total population). He was re-appointed in January 2009, with the looming global financial crisis. Before being appointed Minister, Carranza was BBVA chief economist for Latin American and emerging markets.
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Gabriela Wiener
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- journalistwriterpoet
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Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian writer, chronicler, poet and journalist. She is part of the group of new Latin American chroniclers. She has lived in Spain since 2003.
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Antonio Cisneros
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- poettranslatorwriterscreenwriter
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Antonio Alfonso Cisneros Campoy was a Peruvian poet, journalist and academic. He was born in Lima on 27 December 1942 and died there of lung cancer on 6 October 2012, aged 69.
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Lourdes Flores Nano
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- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Lourdes Celmira Rosario Flores Nano is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who served as a councilwoman of Lima, Deputy from Lima from 1990 to 1992, Democratic Constituent Congresswoman from 1992 to 1995, Congresswoman from 1995 to 2000, and the Christian People's Party candidate for President of Peru in the 2001 and 2006 elections in which she ran under the National Unity.
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Hernando Guerra García
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- politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
- Biography
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Hernando Guerra-García Campos, better known as Nano Guerra, was a Peruvian politician, businessman, and television presenter. He served as a congressman representing Lima for Fuerza Popular from 27 July 2021, until his death in office.
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Lucía Cayetana Aljovín Gazzani
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- lawyerjournalist
- Biography
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Lucía Cayetana Aljovín Gazzani is Peruvian lawyer, journalist and public administrator. In Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's administration, she served in three different portfolios between 2016 and 2018.
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Rafael Rey
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- politician
- Biography
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Rafael Rey Rey is a Peruvian engineer, political commentator and politician who currently serves as member of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru Board of Directors since 2016. Throughout his political life, he served in the Peruvian Congress from 1990 to 2006 and as a Representative to the Andean Parliament from 2006 to 2016. During the Second presidency of Alan García, he was appointed Minister of Production, Ambassador to Italy and Minister of Defense.
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Pedro Olaechea
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- politicianbusinesspersoneconomist
- Biography
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Pedro Carlos Olaechea Álvarez-Calderón is a Peruvian economist, vintner businessman and politician, who is the former President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru. Olaechea had served in Congress from 2016 to 2019, elected for the Peruvians for Change, representing the constituency of Lima.
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José Ugaz
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- judge
- Biography
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José Carlos Ugaz Sánchez-Moreno is a Peruvian jurist. He served as Ad-Hoc Attorney of Peru for one of the highest profile criminal cases in Peruvian history, involving the investigation of former President Fujimori and his chief of intelligence, Vladimiro Montesinos.
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Daniel Abugattás
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- politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
- Biography
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Daniel Fernando Abugattás Majluf is a Peruvian businessman and politician belonging to the Alliance for Progress. He was formerly a Congressman representing the constituency of Lima from 2006 to 2016 and formerly belonged to the Peruvian Nationalist Party.
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Óscar Maúrtua
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- lawyercivil servantpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Óscar José Ricardo Maúrtua de Romaña is a Peruvian diplomat and jurist who served as Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru from August 2021 to February 2022, under the presidency of Pedro Castillo. He previously occupied the office under President Alejandro Toledo during the last of year of his presidency.
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Carlos Miguel Ramón Basombrío Iglesias
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- journalistsociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Carlos Miguel Ramón Basombrío Iglesias is a Peruvian sociologist, journalist and political scientist. He served as Minister of the Interior in the Pedro Pablo Kuczynski administration from July 2016 to December 2017.
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Javier Velásquez
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ángel Javier Velásquez Quesquén is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. A prominent member of the Peruvian Aprista Party, he has served in Congress between 2001 and 2019, previously serving from 1995 to 2000. In Alan García's second presidency, Velásquez was sworn as the third Prime Minister of Peru of the administration, succeeding Yehude Simon in 2009. He resigned his post in 2010 with the intention to run for the Peruvian Aprista Party presidential nomination later that year. Although not selected as the nominee, he was part of the presidential ticket of Mercedes Aráoz in which he was the candidate for First Vice President until her withdrawal from the election in January 2011. In 2016, he was reelected for a fifth term in Congress, representing the Lambayeque Region under the Popular Alliance which consisted of the APRA and PPC.
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Juan Jiménez Mayor
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Juan Federico Jiménez Mayor is a Peruvian politician who was Prime Minister of Peru from July 2012 to October 2013. He previously served as Minister of Justice and Human Rights, and was appointed to the post of Prime Minister on 23 July 2012 by President Ollanta Humala. He resigned his post on 29 October 2013, and was replaced by César Villanueva, Governor of the San Martín Region.
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Ana Estrada
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 48)
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- Studied psychology
- Occupations
- activistpsychologist
- Biography
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Ana Milagros Estrada is a Peruvian psychologist and euthansia activist.
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Carlos Ferrero
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Carlos Ernesto Fernando Ferrero Costa is a Peruvian politician who served as congressman as a member of Perú Posible representing Lima from 1995 until 2006 and also served as the President of the Congress from late-2000 until 2003. He was the Prime Minister of Peru from December 2003 until his resignation August 2005. He belongs to the Perú Posible party. Before he became a member of the Perú Posible party, he was part of the Fujimorist Cambio 90 of Alberto Fujimori.
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Arlette Contreras
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- lawyerwoman human rights defenderspoliticianwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista is a Peruvian lawyer and social activist. She is an International Women of Courage Award recipient, and was also included in the Time 100 list of the most influential people.
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Marco Martos Carrera
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- writerpoet
- Biography
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Marco Martos Carrera is a Peruvian poet and the President of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua. It's assumed from critics to be one of the most important persons of the Peruvian "60's generation". Critics also appoints that he uses a simple way of expression with an ironic way to project the life. We can find in his work topics like 'loneliness' and 'existentialism'.
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Guido Lombardi
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Guido Ricardo Lombardi Elías is a Peruvian journalist, lawyer, and politician of Italian descent.
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José García Belaúnde
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- lawyerpoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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José Antonio García Belaunde is a Peruvian career diplomat, who served as Foreign Minister during the Second Presidency of Alan Garcia from 2006 to 2011, making him the only Foreign Affairs Minister to serve a complete term. On August 2, 2011, his successor in office, Rafael Roncagliolo announced his appointment as Peru's co-agent before the Court of The Hague.
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Teresa Burga
- Occupations
- visual artistmultimedia artistconceptual artist
- Biography
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María Teresa Burga Ruiz was a multimedia artist whose conceptual art works during the late 1960s and 1970s position her as a precursor of media art, technology-based art, and installation art in Peru.
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Alberto Borea Odría
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- lawyerwriterpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Alberto Borea Odría is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. He was Fuerza Democrática's presidential candidate for the 2006 national election.
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Allan Wagner
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Edward Allan Wagner Tizón is a Peruvian diplomat who most recently served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from February 2021 to July 2021. He previously served twice in the position from 2002 to 2003 and from 1985 to 1988. In addition, he served as Minister of Defense from 2006 to 2007.
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Iván Thays
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Iván Thays is a Peruvian author, professor and television host.
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Carlos Ramos Núñez
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- historianlawyerjurist
- Biography
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Carlos Ramos Núñez was a Peruvian jurist and academic. He was a justice of the Constitutional Court from 2014 until his death.
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Enrique Bernales Ballesteros
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Enrique Martín Bernales Ballesteros was a Peruvian scholar and politician. He was a member of the Peruvian Senate and the first UN Special Rapporteur on mercenaries.
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Nuria Esparch
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- Studied law
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Nuria del Rocío Esparch Fernández is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who had served as the country's Defence Minister from November 2020 to July 2021.
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Rosario Fernández
- Occupations
- lawyerlegal scholararbitratorpolitician
- Biography
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Rosario del Pilar Fernández Figueroa is a Peruvian politician. She is a former Prime Minister of Peru and Minister of Justice.
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Rafael Roncagliolo
- Occupations
- university teachersociologistwriterdiplomatjournalist
- Biography
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Fortunato Rafael Roncagliolo de Orbegoso was a Peruvian sociologist, diplomat, and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Ollanta Humala from 28 July 2011 until he resigned on 14 May 2013, after the diplomatic crisis with Venezuela and the government of Nicolás Maduro.He later served as Ambassador to Spain from 2015 to 2016. He died on 1 May 2021 from COVID-19.
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Javier Bedoya de Vivanco
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Javier Alonso Bedoya de Vivanco is a Peruvian lawyer and politician (PPC) and a former Congressman representing Lima between 2006 and 2016.
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René Cornejo
- Occupations
- electrical engineerpoliticianmechanical engineer
- Biography
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René Cornejo Diaz is a Peruvian politician who was Prime Minister of Peru from February to July 2014, following the resignation of César Villanueva. He resigned after a political scandal that involved his office. He was replaced by the Minister of Labor Ana Jara.
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Javier Valle Riestra
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristcivil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Javier Maximiliano Alfredo Hipólito Valle Riestra González Olaechea or simply known as Javier Valle Riestra, is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. Known member of the Peruvian Aprista Party, has held several public offices, among them the most controversial being is the President of the Council of Ministers during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori in 1998. This premiership is known for being the only one led by a politician from the opposition in Peruvian history during the Fujimori regime to date.
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Liliana La Rosa
- Occupations
- nurse
- Biography
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Liliana del Carmen La Rosa Huertas is a Peruvian nurse and academic specializing in public policy. She was Minister of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru from 2 April 2018 to 11 March 2019, during the government of Martín Vizcarra.
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Kurt Burneo
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Kurt Johnny Burneo Farfán is a Peruvian economist and politician. He served as minister of Economy and Finance under the presidency of Pedro Castillo.
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Diego García-Sayán
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerwriterpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Diego García-Sayán Larrabure is a Peruvian lawyer and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Perú. He sat as judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and was president of the Court between 2010 and 2012. He was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers.
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César Falcón
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- Studied in 1917
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianplaywrightpublisherjournalist
- Biography
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César Falcón Gárfias was a Peruvian writer, journalist and politician.
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Mario Montalbetti
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Mario Manuel Bartolo Montalbetti Solari is a Peruvian syntactician and a professor of linguistics within the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, as well as a poet.
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César Landa
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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César Rodrigo Landa Arroyo is a Peruvian professor and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru intermittently from February to December 2022 under the presidency of Pedro Castillo. He also served as president of the Constitutional Court of Peru between 2006 and 2008, and vice minister of Justice in 2004.
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Alberto de Belaunde
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Alberto de Belaúnde de Cárdenas is a Peruvian lawyer, LGBT activist, and politician. An independent progressive caucusing with the Purple Party, he currently serves in the Peruvian Congress' complementary term 2020–2021. He previously served in the 2016–2019 term, elected under Peruvians for Change, and subsequently joining the progressive Liberal Bench.
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Guillermo Wiese de Osma
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- lawyerphilanthropistbankerarchaeologist
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Guillermo Wiese de Osma was a Peruvian businessman and lawyer. He was the son of Augusto N. Wiese Eslava and Virginia de Osma Porras, who had another 4 children (Clotilde, Silvia, Mary Virginia and Philip Augustus). He was married to Delfina Miró Quesada Cornejo and was the father of 5 daughters (Marina, Virginia, Delphine, Diana and Veronica Wiese Miró Quesada).
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Isabel Sabogal
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- poettranslatorwriterastrologer
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Isabel María Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski is a Polish-Peruvian bilingual novelist, poet, translator of Polish literature into Spanish and astrologer.
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Roberto Dañino
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Roberto Dañino is a Peruvian lawyer who was a former Prime Minister of Peru. He was also the Peruvian Ambassador to the United States and the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of The World Bank. He has practiced corporate law for several decades and was the Chairman of the Latin American practice of leading law firms in the United States and Perú. He has also served on the boards of various corporations and nonprofit organizations in Peru, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Currently, he is a member of various corporate boards and philanthropic entities in Peru and the USA. He is also a member of the international advisory boards of Goldman Sachs, NTT Data, Albright Stonebridge Group and Inversiones Centenario. He was awarded the Order of the Sun of Peru (Gran Cruz) in 2003, which is the highest honor bestowed on a Peruvian citizen.
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Michel Azcueta
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- politician
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Michel Azcueta is a Spanish-Peruvian teacher and politician. He was born in Madrid, Spain. Affiliated with the United Left party, he was mayor of Villa El Salvador District from 1984 to 1986, 1987–1990 and 1996–1998.
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Sergio Tejada
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- politician
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Sergio Fernando Tejada Galindo is a Peruvian sociologist and politician who served as a Congressman representing the constituency of Lima from 2011 to 2016.
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Marcela Huaita Alegre
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- university teacherlawyer
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Marcela Patricia María Huaita Alegre is a Peruvian lawyer and academic specialized in human rights and public policy. She was Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations from 17 February 2015 until 28 July 2016 under president Ollanta Humala.
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Ariela Luna
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- Graduated with diploma in anthropology
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianphysician
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Ariela María de los Milagros Luna Florez is a Peruvian physician and anthropologist. She was her country's Minister of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS) from 29 October 2019 to 15 July 2020, during the government of Martín Vizcarra.
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Patricia Balbuena
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- university teacherlawyer
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Patricia Jacquelyn Balbuena Palacios is a Peruvian lawyer and public servant. She was the Minister of Culture of Peru from April to November 2018 during the first eight months of Martín Vizcarra's government.
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Slobodan Čašule
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- journalistpoliticianministerdiplomat
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Slobodan Čašule was Foreign Minister of the Republic of Macedonia in 2001–2002; he was appointed November 30, 2001. He became well known for his strong policy of the protection of the state name in the United Nations sponsored negotiations with Greece in the Macedonia naming dispute. Čašule was the ambassador of Macedonia to Spain.
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Cecilia Paredes
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- visual artist
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Cecilia Paredes is a Peruvian-born multimedia artist residing in Philadelphia. Her primary themes include the power of nature, femininity, and migration, which have been subjects of many of her shows. She frequently utilizes natural elements, often recycled waste materials and primarily organic ones, in her installations. One of her best-known works is "Paisajes" in which she camouflages herself and uses her own figure as a canvas for body painting.
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María Zavala Valladares
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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María Zavala Valladares is a Peruvian politician, lawyer and judge. She was the Minister for Justice.
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Rosa María Ortiz Ríos
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Rosa María Ortiz Ríos was a Peruvian lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Energy and Mines under President Ollanta Humala in 2015/16.
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Ana Cecilia Gervasi
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- international forum participantlawyer
- Biography
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Ana Cecilia Gervasi Diaz is a Peruvian diplomat who was the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs between 10 December 2022 and 6 November 2023.
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Aurelio Pastor
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- politicianlawyer
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Aurelio Pastor Valdivieso is a Peruvian lawyer and politician and a former Congressman representing San Martín for the 2006-2011 term. Pastor belongs to the Peruvian Aprista Party. He was defeated in the 2011 election, when he ran for re-election for a seat in Lima. He was the Minister of Justice during the Second presidency of Alan García from July 2009 to September 2010.
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Ana María Mendieta
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ana María Alejandra Mendieta Trefogli is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. She was the Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations in the government of Martín Vizcarra from April 2018 until March 2019; she succeeded Ana María Choquehuanca in the position, and was herself succeeded by Gloria Montenegro. She is a graduate of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and of Federico Villarreal National University.
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Gonzalo Portocarrero
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Gonzalo Portocarrero was a Peruvian sociologist, social scientist and essayist.
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Aída García Naranjo
- Occupations
- educatorpoliticianwomen's rights activistsinger
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Aída del Carmen Jesús Consuelo García-Naranjo Morales, also known by her nickname "Mocha", is a Peruvian educator, singer, and politician, the former Secretary General of the Socialist Party and spokesperson of Gana Perú, the alliance of former President Ollanta Humala.
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Luis Valdivieso Montano
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- economistdiplomat
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Luis Miguel Valdivieso Montano is Peruvian politician. He was the Minister of Economy and Finance of Peru from July 2008 until January 2009. He was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Peru in the United States in 2009.
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Javier Barreda Jara
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- politiciansociologist
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Javier Alberto Barreda Jara was a Peruvian sociologist, writer and public administrator. Born in Lima, he was educated at Cayetano Heredia University and Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He served as the Minister of Labor and Promotion of Employment for three months, from January to April 2018.
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Raúl Castro Stagnaro
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- politician
- Biography
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Raúl Eduardo Castro Stagnaro is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who is a former Congressman, representing Lima elected in the 2006 election under the National Unity list for the 2006–2011 term. In the 2016 election, Castro Stagnaro tried to run for Congress again in the Lima constituency, under the Popular Alliance under number 2 of the list, which grouped Alan García’s APRA, and the Christian People's Party, but he was not elected. In party level, he served as President of the Christian People's Party from 2011 and 2016. He was also its party Secretary General from 2006 and 2011 and as Vice President of the Party from 1999 to 2006.
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Julio Gagó
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- politician
- Biography
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Julio César Gagó Pérez is a Peruvian lawyer, businessman, and politician. He served in the Peruvian Congress representing Lima from 2011 to 2016.
