Government in Peru
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PERU, 2016/06/12
The economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski won Peru’s Presidential election this week, beating his rival, Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a disgraced and imprisoned former President, by the thinnest of margins—a mere thirty-nine thousand votes out of nearly eighteen million cast. In each sense, Kuczynski is a member of his country’s social, political, and economic élite.
Seventy-seven years old, he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and at Princeton; he has, at various points in his career, worked at senior levels of the World Bank, been an investment banker on Wall Street and a mine manager in Guinea, and has served as Peru’s Prime Minister, minister of economy and finance, and minister of energy and mines. He is as well a onetime student of the Royal College of Music, an finished flautist and pianist, and the owner of a white grand piano that once belonged to Noël Coward.
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MEXICO, 2013/04/28
Presidents Ollanta Humala of Peru, Ricardo Martinelli of Panama and Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico joined Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, in a discussion on their approaches to ensure sustained economic increase and regional evolution. Three Latin American presidents called for inclusive increase in the region through comprehensive reforms at the opening of the 2013 World Economic Forum on Latin America which is taking place in Lima, Peru.
