Maria Juliana Awada was born on 3 April 1974 and is an Argentine businesswoman who served as the First Lady of Argentina from 2015 to 2019.
14 Facts About Juliana Awada
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Juliana Awada is the first woman in this role to have received the distinction of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in 70 years and the second in history after Eva Peron in 1947.
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Juliana Awada is the sister of entrepreneurs Zoraida and Daniel Awada, artist Leila Awada, and actor Alejandro Awada.
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At first with an extremely low profile, Juliana Awada always differed from the other wives of the presidential candidates, who had been much more prominent in the campaigns of their husbands.
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Juliana Awada joined the campaign of Maria Eugenia Vidal in the Province of Buenos Aires in a tour of the party of Jose C Paz, where they visited the Zonal Hospital of Agudos Governor Domingo Mercante, and talked with neighbors and merchants in Plaza Manuel Belgrano of that locality.
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Juliana Awada was present during the presidential debate that took place in the Law College of the University of Buenos Aires, between her husband Mauricio Macri against the candidate Daniel Scioli.
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Juliana Awada received the wife of Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden in the Presidential Residence of Olivos and shared with her then the visit to a Space of First Childhood in the locality of San Martin, Buenos Aires.
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Juliana Awada emphasized that she has made "great contributions and was able to promote many positive changes from her vocation and commitment to education, her experience as a combatant's mother, her role in helping women prevent cancer and their participation for women's equality ".
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Juliana Awada made her first international trip as First Lady of Argentina to Davos, Switzerland to accompany her husband during the 2016 World Economic Forum.
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Macri and Juliana Awada held in Paris a meeting with French President Francois Hollande, and Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in this case in the context of a two-day official visit.
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In September 2016 Juliana Awada accompanied her husband to the G-20 Summit held in Hangzhou.
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Juliana Awada inaugurated the ARCO Fair of Madrid 2017 with Queen Letizia in Madrid, where Argentina was the guest country of honor.
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Juliana Awada was in charge of choosing all the Argentine artists who will have a place in the exhibition.
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Juliana Awada internalized on the projects of complementary financing that executed the social portfolio in order to improve the building situation and to provide equipment and supplies.