Juan Carlos Echeverry

Who is Juan Carlos Echeverry?

Juan Carlos Echeverry Garzón is a Colombian economist and was the Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia. He is the president of Econcept, a financial consulting firm in Bogotá and is an Associate Professor of Economics at University of the Andes.

He served as Colombia’s Minister of Economic Planning from 2000–2002 and held the position of Dean of Economics at the University of the Andes from 2002-2006. He was appointed finance minister by Colombia's President-elect Juan Manuel Santos on June 22, 2010.

Echeverry received a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of the Andes. Echeverry writes a weekly editorial for CNN en Español.