José Antonio Ocampo

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In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Ocampo and the second or maternal family name is Gaviria.
José Antonio Ocampo
Minister of Finance and Public Credit
In office
7 August 2022 – 26 April 2023
PresidentGustavo Petro
Preceded byJosé Manuel Restrepo
Succeeded byRicardo Bonilla
In office
7 August 1996 – 24 November 1997
PresidentErnesto Samper
Preceded byGuillermo Perry
Succeeded byAntonio José Urdinola
United Nations Undersecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
In office
1 July 2003 – 1 July 2007
Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan
Ban Ki-moon
Preceded byNitin Desai
Succeeded bySha Zukang
United Nations Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
In office
1 January 1998 – 1 July 2003
Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan
Preceded byGert Rosenthal
Succeeded byJosé Luis Machinea
Director of the National Planning Department
In office
7 August 1994 – 14 May 1996
PresidentErnesto Samper
Preceded byArmando Montenegro Trujillo
Succeeded byJuan Carlos Ramírez Jaramillo
Minister of Agriculture
In office
4 May 1993 – 7 August 1994
PresidentCésar Gaviria
Preceded byAlfonso López Caballero
Succeeded byAntonio Hernández Gamarra
Personal details
Born
José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria

(1952-12-20) 20 December 1952 (age 71)
Cali, Cuaca Valley, Colombia
Political partyLiberal
EducationUniversity of Notre Dame (BA)
Yale University (MA, PhD)

José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria (born 20 December 1952)

Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and in Colombia as Minister of Finance and Public Credit and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.[3]

On 23 March 2012, Ocampo was nominated by Brazil as a candidate to lead the World Bank.[4][5] Ocampo's native Colombia declined to endorse his bid, however, and with limited backing he withdrew from the race on 13 April 2012 and swung his support behind Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.[6]

In 2022, President of Colombia

Minister of Finance.[7][8]

Biography

Ocampo graduated from the

dissertation Capital accumulation and international relations.[9]

From 2008-2010, he was co-director of the

UN General Assembly
on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System.

In the political realm, he served in 2003-2007 as the

ECOSOC
and the General Assembly.

Previously, from 1998 to 2003 he was Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (

ECLAC) and from 1989 to 1997 he held a number of high-level posts in the Government of Colombia, including Minister of Finance and Public Credit, and as such, Chair of the Central Bank's (Bank of the Republic) Board, Director of the National Planning Department
, and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

In the academic sphere, he served as Executive Director of FEDESARROLLO, Colombia's main think tank on economic issues, Director of the Centre for Economic Development Studies at the

visiting professor at Cambridge, Oxford and Yale
Universities and lectured in many other institutions while participating in many policy and academic conferences around the world.

Author

Ocampo is author or editor of over 40 books and has published some 300 scholarly articles on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history. He has also directed some 20 institutional reports.

His most recent books include The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence, with Luis Bértola (forthcoming 2012); the Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics, edited with Jaime Ros (2011); Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis, edited with

Joseph E. Stiglitz
(2008).

His past books include Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development, with

Joseph E. Stiglitz
et al. (2006); Regional Financial Cooperation (2006); International Finance and Development (2006); Globalization and Development: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective (2003); the three-volume Economic History of Twentieth Century Latin America (2000), edited with Enrique Cárdenas and Rosemary Thorp; and more than ten editions of Historia Económica de Colombia (2007), originally published in 1977, and considered to be the best known text on the subject.

He has also written co-written a book chapter, with Stephany Griffith-Jones, Helping control boom-bust in finance through countercyclical regulation in Towards human development new approaches to macroeconomics and inequality.[10]

Personal life

Ocampo is married to Ana Lucía Lalinde and has three children. Rocio, 30, holds a B.A in Political Science from

ECLAC Mexico. Juan Camilo, 20, graduated from Horace Mann School and is currently in his second year at Columbia University where he is pursuing a double major in Mathematical Economics and Philosophy. Maria José, 19, also graduated from Horace Mann School and is currently a first-year student at Boston College
where she works towards a double major in Psychology and Art.

References

  1. ^ "Ocampo: Inspirador del Salto" [Ocampo: Inspirer of the Leap]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 19 June 1994. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  2. School of International and Public Affairs
    . Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Secretary-General Appoints José Antonio Ocampo of Colombia New Under-Secretary Fr Economic And Social Affairs". United Nations. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Exclusive: Developing nations to name two candidates for World Bank". Reuters. 21 March 2012.
  5. ^ "Developing nations to nominate Okonjo-Iweala, Ocampo of Columbia for World Bank presidency •To compete with US candidate, others". Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  6. ^ "Ocampo drops out from World Bank bid; gives full support to Nigerian candidate" MercoPress, 14 April 2012. Accessed on 4/15/12 at: http://en.mercopress.com/2012/04/14/ocampo-drops-out-from-world-bank-bid-gives-full-support-to-nigerian-candidate
  7. ^ "Petro comienza a dar forma a su gabinete con dos políticos experimentados". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  8. ^ "DetalleNoticia". www.minhacienda.gov.co. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  9. OCLC 254228426
    .
  10. ISBN 9780198706083

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