Juan Carlos Echeverry Garzón (born 12 September 1962) is a Colombian economist and the Minister of Finance and Public Credit

Ministry of Finance and Public Credit

The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit , is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for the financial and budgetary matters of the country as well as implementing the financial policies passed by Congress, equivalent to the finance ministries of other...

 of Colombia

Colombia

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. He is the president of Econcept, a financial consulting firm in Bogotá and is an Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes

University of the Andes, Colombia

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He served as Colombia’s Minister of Economic Planning from 2000–2002 and held the position of Dean of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes from 2002-2006. He was appointed finance minister by Colombia's President-elect Juan Manuel Santos

Juan Manuel Santos

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 on June 22, 2010.

Echeverry received a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University

New York University

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 and a B.A. in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes. Echeverry writes a weekly editorial for CNN en Español

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