15 Facts About Gabriela Cerruti

Gabriela Carla Cerruti was born on 9 December 1965 and is an Argentine journalist, writer, and politician.

Gabriela Cerruti was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2017 to 2021, as part of the Front for Victory bloc, and later as part of the Frente de Todos bloc.

Gabriela Cerruti served as the official spokesperson for Alberto Fernandez, President of Argentina.

Gabriela Cerruti was part of the New Encounter bloc, a party for which she was one of the main leaders in her district.

Gabriela Cerruti began her university studies in journalism at the National University of La Plata's School of Journalism and Social Communication in 1983.

Gabriela Cerruti pursued graduate studies at the Center for Communication and Information Studies of the University of Westminster in London, where she graduated with a Master of Arts with the thesis The War Against the Public Sphere.

Gabriela Cerruti completed a PhD at the University of Westminster, with a thesis on the destruction of the public sphere during the self-proclaimed National Reorganization Process that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands.

Gabriela Cerruti has noted that Argentina's claim to the islands is supported by other nearby countries and a political rather than a military solution is the only option.

Gabriela Cerruti participated in the foundation and assumed Executive Direction of the Provincial Commission for the Memory of Buenos Aires Province.

Around 2004, Cerruti began working in the field of the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, coordinating the Open City Program under the Ministry of Culture, until in November 2004 she assumed the Cabinet Office of the Vice-Government Office.

Gabriela Cerruti joined the parliamentary commissions on Justice, Social Communication, Protection and Use of Public Space, and continued at Constitutional Affairs.

In 2018 Gabriela Cerruti spoke up in parliament in support of the legalisation of abortion.

Gabriela Cerruti shared her own experiences of having an abortion in a country where the procedure is illegal.

In October 2021, the Casa Rosada announced Gabriela Cerruti would be standing down from her seat in the Chamber of Deputies in order to be appointed the official spokesperson for the Presidency of Argentina.

Gabriela Cerruti is the daughter of Rosa Riasol and Ruggero Cerruti, and the third of six sisters: Sandra, Fabiana, Gabriela, Viviana, Carina, and Andrea.