25 Facts About Alfonso Prat-Gay

Alfonso Prat-Gay was born on 24 November 1965 and is an Argentine economist and politician.

Alfonso Prat-Gay was President of the Central Bank of Argentina from December 2002 to September 2004, and was elected National Deputy for the Civic Coalition in the 2009 elections.

Alfonso Prat-Gay's work earned him Euromoney's Central Bank Governor of the Year award.

Alfonso Prat-Gay is considered an orthodox liberal who has a good image in the markets and fluent contacts abroad.

However, Alfonso Prat-Gay has been a political ally to leftist Victoria Donda and some economists like Javier Milei consider him to be a socialist or a socialdemocrat.

Alfonso Prat-Gay was born in Buenos Aires in 1965, the son of Jorge Alfonso Prat-Gay.

Alfonso Prat-Gay earned a degree in economics from the Universidad Catolica Argentina in 1989, and obtained his master's degree in 1994 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a PhD candidate.

In 1994, Alfonso Prat-Gay joined JP Morgan in New York City and went on to work for the bank in its Buenos Aires and London branches until 2001.

Alfonso Prat-Gay is Chairman of Tilton Capital, an asset management company he co-founded in 2005 with Pedro Lacoste.

Alfonso Prat-Gay is president of Fundacion Andares para el desarrollo de las Microfinanzas.

The vice president of JP Morgan Argentina at the time, Hernan Arbizu, declared that Alfonso Prat-Gay managed much of this wealth in an offshore hedge fund of his creation with put options against the Argentine peso.

Alfonso Prat-Gay was appointed executor of the Lacroze de Fortabat estate following Mrs Fortabat's death in 2012.

In December 2002, Alfonso Prat-Gay was named President of the Central Bank of Argentina, at only 37 years of age, and served until September 24,2004.

Alfonso Prat-Gay completed his term and rejected President Nestor Kirchner's offer to renew his position for another six-year term, due to disagreements with the president on the independence of the Central Bank, anti-inflationary policies, and on negotiations on defaulted bonds.

Alfonso Prat-Gay joined the Civic Coalition, led at the time by Elisa Carrio, and was named as Carrio's choice for Minister of the Economy had she won the 2007 presidential election.

Alfonso Prat-Gay led the Civic Coalition's party list for the city of Buenos Aires in the 2009 congressional elections, and was handily elected.

Alfonso Prat-Gay was a main voice of the opposition in Congress on economic issues.

Alfonso Prat-Gay was named head of the Civic Coalition caucus in the Lower House following Elisa Carrio's poor showing in the 2011 presidential election.

Alfonso Prat-Gay co-founded the Juntos UNEN alliance with centrist UCR Congressional caucus leader Ricardo Gil Lavedra, and Victoria Donda of the leftist Freemen of the South Movement in January 2013.

Alfonso Prat-Gay declared his candidacy in July for a seat in the Argentine Senate ahead of the 2013 mid-term elections.

Alfonso Prat-Gay was appointed Minister of Treasury and Public Finance in December 2015, by the new President Mauricio Macri.

Alfonso Prat-Gay avoided to use a shock therapy and introduced the changes gradually.

Alfonso Prat-Gay had meetings with various business representatives, politicians and journalists.

Alfonso Prat-Gay successfully ended the sovereign default declared in 2001.

Alfonso Prat-Gay had conflicting views of the economy with Federico Sturzenegger, president of the Central Bank of Argentina.