Excelentísimo Señor Pedro Pablo Kuczynski OSP |
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66th President of Peru | |
Assumed office 28 July 2016 |
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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 |
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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 |
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President | Alejandro Toledo |
Prime Minister | Carlos Ferrero |
Preceded by | Jaime Quijandría |
Succeeded by | Fernando Zavala Lombardi |
In office 28 July 2001 – 11 July 2002 |
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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 |
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President | Fernando Belaúnde Terry |
Prime Minister | Manuel Ulloa Elías |
Preceded by | René Balarezo |
Succeeded by | Fernando Montero |
Personal details | |
Born |
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard 3 October 1938 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.