15 Facts About Jorge Quiroga

In both elections, Jorge Quiroga ran on the Christian Democratic Party ticket.

Jorge Quiroga went on to work for IBM in Austin, Texas while earning a master's degree in business administration from St Edward's University.

Jorge Quiroga has 4 children: Vanessa Elena, Cristina Andrea, Adriana Patricia and Jorge Cristian.

Jorge Quiroga was elected as Vice President of Bolivia in 1997 running on the Nationalist Democratic Action ticket with former dictator Hugo Banzer.

Jorge Quiroga became president when Banzer resigned because of aggravated health problems.

Jorge Quiroga assumed office as acting president on 1 July 2001 and was sworn in on 7 August, to complete Banzer's five-year mandate.

Jorge Quiroga ran for president in his own right in the 2005 election, as the candidate for a new right-of-center coalition known as Social and Democratic Power, which included the bulk of Banzer's former ADN organization.

Jorge Quiroga has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Jorge Quiroga is, as of November 2016, active in the private sector and many international organizations, among them: as vice-president of Club de Madrid with almost 100 former heads of state and government; on the board of Results for Development-R4D in Washington DC; as a member of the Inter-American Dialogue and the International Advisory Council of the China Economic Club; and in different capacities on the Global Adaptation Institute, the Foro Iberoamericano and many others.

Jorge Quiroga has presided FUNDEMOS since 2002, a Bolivian public policy foundation.

Jorge Quiroga was appointed as vice president of the Club de Madrid in 2011.

Jorge Quiroga held the post for just over a month, before resigning on 8 January 2020 in order to announce his presidential candidacy for the snap elections to be held later that year.

Jorge Quiroga indicated in his withdrawal announcement that he wished to prevent an outright victory of Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism party in the first electoral round by consolidating the right around Carlos Mesa.

Jorge Quiroga currently holds the role of a senior advisor at New Direction, a think tank affiliated with the European Conservatives and Reformists Party in the European Parliament.

Jorge Quiroga supported Javier Milei in the 2023 Argentine general election.