Eric Calcagno
| Eric Calcagno y Maillmann | |
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National Deputy from Buenos Aires Province |
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Assumed office December 10, 2011 |
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Argentine Senator from Buenos Aires Province |
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In office December 10, 2007 – December 9, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Subsecretary of Small and Medium Enterprises | |
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In office 2008–2008 |
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| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Matías Kulfas |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Caradonti |
| Argentine Ambassador to France | |
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In office December 2005 – December 2007 |
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| President | Néstor Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Archibaldo Lanús |
| Succeeded by | Luis Ureta Sáenz Peña |
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April 9, 1967 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Political party | Front for Victory |
| Alma mater | École Nationale d'Administration |
| Profession | Sociologist |
Eric Calcagno y Maillmann (born April 9, 1967) is an Argentine sociologist, journalist, diplomat and politician. Having been the Ambassador to France, he became a member of the Argentine Senate in 2007 before joining the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as a junior minister. He returned to his Senate seat in 2008.
Born in La Plata, Calcagno comes from a family with a strong background in academia and connections with France. His grandfather, Alfredo Domingo Calcagno, rector of the National University of La Plata, was the Argentine ambassador to UNESCO in Paris during the Presidency of Arturo Frondizi. His father, Alfredo Eric Calcagno, studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris before working for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America for more than twenty years.
Calcagno studied at French schools and, in the early 1990s, graduated from the École Nationale d'Administration in France in public administration and from the Sorbonne in sociology.
Calcagno worked as an economics consultant and journalist, including for Le Monde Diplomatique (Southern Cone Edition), Diario Hoy of La Plata, the magazines Veintitrés and Veintitrés Internacional and Terra. With his father he co-wrote two books on politics and economics: Para entender la política, entre la ilusión de lo óptimo y la realidad de lo pésimo (English translation of title: How to understand politics. Between an utopian illusion and the worst reality), Editorial Norma (Buenos Aires, 1999) and La deuda externa explicada a todos (los que tienen que pagarla) (English translation of title: Foreign Debt Explained to Those Who Have to Pay it), Editorial Catálogos (Buenos Aires, 2000).
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