Alejandro Gaviria Uribe

Alejandro Gaviria Uribe
Minister of National Education
In office 7 August 2022 – 27 February 2023
President	Gustavo Petro
Preceded by	María Victoria Angulo
Succeeded by	Aurora Vergara
Rector of the University of Los Andes
In office 22 May 2019 – 27 August 2021
Preceded by	Pablo Navas Sanz
Succeeded by	Raquel Bernal Salazar
Minister of Health and Social Protection
In office 3 September 2012 – 7 August 2018
President	Juan Manuel Santos
Preceded by	Beatriz Londoño Soto
Succeeded by	Fernando Ruiz Gomez
Deputy General Director of the National Planning
In office 7 August 2002 – 6 February 2004
President	Álvaro Uribe
Preceded by	Tomás González Estrada
Succeeded by	José Leibovich Goldenberg
Personal details
Born	Alejandro Gaviria Uribe (1965-06-25) 25 June 1965 (age 59) Santiago, Chile
Spouse	Carolina Soto Losada
Education	Antioquia School of Engineering (BS) University of the Andes (MEcon) University of California, San Diego (PhD)

Alejandro Gaviria Uribe (born 25 June 1965) is a Colombian economist and engineer, serving as the Minister of National Education of Colombia since 7 August 2022, replacing María Victoria Angulo.^[1] He also served as Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia from 2012 to 2018. He is the former Rector of the University of Los Andes (Colombia), where he served from 2019 to August 2021. He was Dean of the School of Economics at University of los Andes in 2006, until his appointment as Minister in 2012. Prior to his academic career, Gaviria served as Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia, as well as Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Higher Education and Development (Fedesarrollo), a private non-profit policy research centre, and as a Researcher at the Inter-American Development Bank. A published author of several books and scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, in 2019 he was appointed Rector of University of the Andes for a four-year period.^[2]