Eliane Karp
| Eliane Karp | |
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| First Lady of Peru | |
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In role July 28, 2001 – July 28, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Nilda Jara de Paniagua |
| Succeeded by | Pilar Nores de García |
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| Born |
Eliane Chantal Karp Fernenburg September 24, 1953 Paris, France |
| Citizenship | American Peruvian Belgian French Israeli |
| Spouse(s) | Alejandro Toledo (m. 1972) |
| Children | Chantal Toledo |
| Residence | Lima |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Profession | Anthropologist |
| Religion | Jewish |
| Website | http://elianekarptoledo.com/ |
Eliane Chantal Karp-Toledo is a French-born anthropologist, ex-First Lady of Peru, and the wife of the ex-president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo. She specializes in the study of Andean indigenous cultures.
Eliane Chantal Karp-Toledo was born in Paris in 1953. Her mother was Belgian and her father was Polish. She completed her baccalaureate at the Lycée Français in Brussels, and earned her Bachelor of Arts in anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in Latin American studies. She also holds a Master of Arts in anthropology from Stanford University. Karp has taken courses on indigenous communities at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and has done graduate work on anthropology and economic development at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
At Stanford, she met Alejandro Toledo, whom she married in 1972. Karp first came to Peru in the late 1970s to study its indigenous communities. In 1992 Karp and Toledo divorced and she returned to Israel with their daughter. The couple remarried and returned to Peru before her husband's 1995 campaign.
During her husband's 2001 presidential bid, Karp contributed to a campaign which drew deeply on Toledo's indigenous heritage. She donned traditional Andean costume, rallied voters in Quechua, and demonstrated the couple's commitment to indigenous issues. According to The New York Times, "her flaming red hair and fiery speeches made her a popular and controversial fixture at campaign rallies.”
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