Marcos Peña
| Marcos Peña | |
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| Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina |
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Assumed office 10 December 2015 |
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| President | Mauricio Macri |
| Preceded by | Aníbal Fernández |
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15 March 1977 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party | Republican Proposal |
| Other political affiliations |
Cambiemos (2015–present) |
| Alma mater | Torcuato di Tella University |
Marcos Peña (born March 15, 1977) Is an Argentine politician, author and political scientist, current Chief of Cabinet of Ministers of the Argentine Nation, after being appointed by President Mauricio Macri, on December 10, 2015.
Previously, he had served as Legislator of the City of Buenos Aires by the Commitment to Change Front. He is one of the main advisers of Republican Proposal. He himself led the campaign that led Macri to be elected in 2015 as President of Argentina.
Marcos Peña was born in March 15, 1977, in Buenos Aires. Peña is the son of Félix Peña, a foreign trade specialist and Clara Braun, an academic. He is the grandson of the Argentine physiologist, Eduardo Braun-Menéndez. He attended his first years of elementary school at Wayside Elementary School in Potomac, Maryland, United States, as his parents lived abroad. He returned to Argentina and completed high school in Buenos Aires. He graduated with a degree in political sciences from the Torcuato di Tella University.
He was elected a Legislator for the Buenos Aires City in 2003, then by the Commitment to Change.6 He helped the gestation of Commitment to Change, which would later be Republican Proposal, popularly known as PRO, a new party that would initially propel Mauricio Macri to The City Government Headquarters and topped the list of legislators in 2005.
When Mauricio Macri became List of mayors and chiefs of government of Buenos Aires in 2007, Peña is designated General Secretary of the City of Buenos Aires. From there he was in charge of the communication area of the city. In November 2015, Macri designates him as Chief of Cabinet of Ministers of the Argentine Nation. He took office on December 10, 2015 in the Bicentennial Museum in the Casa Rosada.
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