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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
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66th President of Peru
Assumed office
28 July 2016
Prime Minister Fernando Zavala Lombardi
Vice President Martín Vizcarra
Mercedes Aráoz
Preceded by Ollanta Humala
Prime Minister of Peru
In office
16 August 2005 – 27 July 2006
President Alejandro Toledo
Preceded by Carlos Ferrero
Succeeded by Jorge del Castillo
Minister of Economy and Finance
In office
16 February 2004 – 16 August 2005
President Alejandro Toledo
Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero
Preceded by Jaime Quijandría
Succeeded by Fernando Zavala Lombardi
In office
28 July 2001 – 11 July 2002
President Alejandro Toledo
Prime Minister Roberto Dañino
Preceded by Javier Silva Ruete
Succeeded by Javier Silva Ruete
Minister of Energy and Mines
In office
28 July 1980 – 3 August 1982
President Fernando Belaúnde Terry
Prime Minister Manuel Ulloa Elías
Preceded by René Balarezo
Succeeded by Fernando Montero
Personal details
Born Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard
(1938-10-03) 3 October 1938 (age 78)
Lima, Peru
Political party Independent (Before 2014)
Peruvians for Change (2014–present)
Other political
affiliations
Alliance for the Great Change (2010–2013)
Spouse(s) Jane Casey (Divorced)
Nancy Lange
Children Carolina
Alex
John
Suzanne
Residence Government Palace
Alma mater Exeter College, Oxford
Princeton University
Religion Roman Catholic
Signature
Website Official website

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (Spanish: [ˈpeðɾo ˈpaβlo kuˈtʃinski ɣoˈðaɾð] ; born 3 October 1938) better known simply as "PPK", is a Peruvian economist, politician, and public administrator who is the current (66th) President of Peru. He previously served as Prime Minister of Peru from 2005 to 2006.

Kuczynski worked in the United States before entering Peruvian politics. He held positions at both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund before being designated as general manager of Peru's Central Reserve Bank. He later served as Minister of Energy and Mines in the early 1980s under President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, and as Minister of Economy and Finance and Prime Minister under President Alejandro Toledo in the 2000s.

Kuczynski was a presidential candidate in the 2011 presidential election, placing third. His opponents Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori went on to the June 5, 2011 runoff election, in which Humala was elected. Kuczynski went on to stand in the 2016 election, where he narrowly defeated Fujimori in the second round. He was sworn in as President on July 28, 2016.

Kuczynski was born at the Clínica Delgado in Lima, Peru, the son of Madeleine (Godard) and Maxime Hans Kuczynski, one of the earliest public health leaders in Peru. His parents fled Germany in 1933 to escape from Nazism; his father, born in Poznań, was a German Jew whose family was from Poland, and his mother was Christian, of Swiss-French descent. He received his early education at Markham College in Lima, Peru, and Rossall School in Lancashire, England where he was a pupil in Maltese Cross House between 1953 and 1956. He won a foundation scholarship to study at Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics in 1960. Later, he received the John Parker Compton fellowship to study public affairs at Princeton University in the United States, where he received a master's degree in 1961. He began his career at the World Bank in 1961 as a regional economist for six countries in Central America, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.


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