Aldo Ferrer
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| Ambassador of Argentina to France | |
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In office February 3, 2011 – April 18, 2013 |
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| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Luis Ureta Sáenz Peña |
| Succeeded by | María del Carmen Squeff |
| President of the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires | |
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In office December 22, 1983 – December 18, 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Arnaldo Cisilino |
| Succeeded by | Eduardo Amadeo |
| Minister of Economy of Argentina | |
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In office October 26, 1970 – May 28, 1971 |
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| President | Roberto Levingston |
| Preceded by | Carlos Moyano Llerena |
| Succeeded by | Juan Quillici |
| Personal details | |
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April 15, 1927 Buenos Aires |
| Died | March 8, 2016 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
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Aldo Ferrer (April 15, 1927 – March 8, 2016) was an Argentine economist and policy maker. Ferrer was one of the leading proponents of economic nationalism in Argentina.
Aldo Ferrer was born in Buenos Aires in 1927, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires School of Economics, where he received a Doctorate in 1953. He served as adviser to the UN Secretariat as a doctoral student under Professor Raúl Prebisch, and his dissertation, The State and Economic Development, earned him early repute as a defender of industrial protectionism. Ferrer was named economic policy attaché to the Argentine Embassy in London in 1956 and in 1957 co-founded the Argentine Association of Political Economy. Following the progressive UCRI's victory at the polls in 1958, the new Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Oscar Alende, named Ferrer Minister of the Economy, from which Ferrer promoted increased spending in infrastructure and needed flood control works, for example.
His turn as chief economist for Argentina's largest province (home to over a third of the population) gave Ferrer national stature, though it also left him out of the halls of power after the UCRI's standard-bearer, President Arturo Frondizi, was forced to resign by conservative opponents in 1962. Ferrer returned to academia as Professor of Economics at the University of La Plata and at the University of Buenos Aires. In this capacity, he created a new, fourth edition of the well-known textbook, The Argentine Economy (translated into English at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967). Appointed a committee-member in U.S. President John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, he was also invited as a founding member of the Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO), an NGO created in 1967 in a consultative capacity to UNESCO.
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