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Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler became Peru’s new president on Monday, after receiving 97 votes in favor of the board of directors. Born in Lima, Sagasti is an industrial engineer, researcher, politician, founder and militant of the Purple Party, with whom he ran for Congress in the complementary elections of 2020.
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Until now, Sagasti has been chairman of the parliamentary committee on science, innovation and technology, as well as being the main spokesperson for the purple bench. During his professional life he also obtained important positions.
He has been a member of Congress since March 2020 for the Purple Party. After the dissolution of Congress by the former president, Martín Vizcarra, on September 30, 2019 and the call for new parliamentary elections, the 76-year-old politician was invited to join the purple party list. His motto within this party was “make decent politics, fight corruption and political reform”.
After a week of political upheaval, #Peru has a new temporary president: @FSagasti. The police crackdown on massive protests has left two dead, dozens injured and missing, forcing the resignation of former President Manuel Merino. pic.twitter.com/tT7QRrFQzo
– Rolando Segura (@rolandoteleSUR)
November 16, 2020
Between 1972 and 1977, Sagasti was Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Technological, Industrial and Technical Standards Research of Peru and advisor to the Minister of Industry during the military government of Francisco Morales Bermúdez.
From 1985 to 1987 he was advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Allan Wagner, during the first government of Alan García. In addition, he was a member of the Advisory Council of the National Planning Institute. Subsequently, he left the country from 1987 to 1992, where he became head of strategic planning at the World Bank and an advisor to the policy evaluation and external relations departments in the same international organization.
He also had a stint in Alan García’s second government, when between 2007 and 2009 he was president of the Board of Directors of the Science and Technology Program. The same assignment took place during Ollanta Humala’s government between 2011 and 2013.
The Purple Party fights against corruption, wherever it is, but with due process and stability. A few months before the elections, a change of government will solve nothing and create more uncertainty.
– Francisco Sagasti (@FSagasti)
November 10, 2020
In the academic field Francisco Sagasti has an extensive career. He was a professor at the Universidad del Pacífico and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Visiting Professor at the Instituto de Empresa of Madrid, at the Silberberg Chair at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and at the University for Peace in Costa Rica. From 2009 to 2014 he was Principal Investigator of FORO Nacional / Internacional, an entity dedicated to promoting debate and consensus on issues critical to national and international development.
He distinguished himself with the United Nations Organization Peace Medal and the Paul Hoffman Award, awarded by the Society for International Development, for his contributions to national and international development. In 2012 he also received the Governor-General of Canada Medal for his contribution to strengthening relations between Peru and that country.
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