1. Gabriel Nicolas Katopodis is an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as the country's Minister of Public Works from 2019 to 2023, in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernandez.
14 Facts About Gabriel Katopodis
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From 2011 to 2019, Katopodis was intendente of General San Martin, a partido in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.
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Gabriel Nicolas Katopodis was born in 1967 in the uptown Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano to a family of Greek background.
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Gabriel Katopodis studied law at the University of Buenos Aires and became involved in political activism through his work in poor neighbourhoods of the Buenos Aires Province.
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Gabriel Katopodis has a postgraduate degree in public management from FLACSO and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Buenos Aires School of Economics.
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In 2011, Gabriel Katopodis ran for the mayoralty of San Martin for a second time, this time against Daniel Ivoskus, the incumbent mayor's son.
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Gabriel Katopodis won in an upset victory by just 7 percentage points.
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Gabriel Katopodis ran under the Frente Social ticket, aligning himself to the ruling Front for Victory.
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Gabriel Katopodis was re-elected for a second term in 2015, this time beating former mayor Ricardo Ivoskus.
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On 6 December 2019, the newly elected president of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, announced the entirety of his incoming cabinet, in which Gabriel Katopodis was touted to be the new Minister of Public Works.
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Gabriel Katopodis assumed the position alongside the rest of the cabinet on 10 December 2019.
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Gabriel Katopodis stated that due to the accumulated debt, the ministry's priorities would be federal integration, job creation, and the completion of ongoing works.
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Gabriel Katopodis is married to Nancy Cappelloni, a school teacher and politician, with whom he has two children.
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Since the 1980s the Gabriel Katopodis household has lived in San Martin, part of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.