Luis Miguel Castilla Rubio is a Peru

Peru

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vian economist and politician. He is the incumbent Minister of Economy and Finance of Peru, serving under President Ollanta Humala

Ollanta Humala

Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso is a Peruvian politician and the President of Peru. Humala, who previously served as an army officer, lost the presidential election in 2006 but won the 2011 presidential election in a run-off vote...

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Educated in North America, and bilingual in Spanish and English, Miguel Castilla holds a B.A. with Honors in Economics and Business Administration from the McGill University

McGill University

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 in Montreal, Canada, a Master's degree in the Global Crisis and Financial Reform program of the Harvard University

Harvard University

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, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 in Baltimore, Maryland. He has held the positions of consultant to the World Bank

World Bank

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 vice president for North Africa and the Middle East, adviser to the executive chair of the Andean Development Corporation

Corporación Andina de Fomento

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 (CAF), and director of the Bank of the Nation

Bank of the Nation (Peru)

The Bank of the Nation, known in Spanish as the Banco de la Nación, is the bank which represents the Peruvian government in financial transactions in both the public and private sectors, as well as at both domestic and international levels. It is an entity belonging to the Peruvian Ministry of...

 of Peru. He has been a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of the Pacific

University of the Pacific (Peru)

University of the Pacific is a small private university in the Jesús María District of Lima, Peru. It was established in 1962 by a group of Peruvian entrepreneurs supported by the Society of Jesus...

 in Lima.

In the administration of President Alan García, Castilla has served as deputy minister of Finance under minister Mercedes Aráoz

Mercedes Aráoz

Mercedes Rosalba Aráoz Fernández is a Peruvian economist, professor, and politician. She served as Minister of Foreign Commerce and Tourism from 2006 to December 2009, after which she was appointed as Peru's Finance Minister....

from January 2010 to July 2011. On 28 July 2011, newly-elected President Ollanta Humala appointed him as Minister of Economy and Finance. The choice of Castilla – who is characterised as an orthodox pro-market economist – was estimated as a sign for Humala's intention to pursue a reasonable and moderate economic policy and to remove the fears of a radical shift to the left.