Gonzalo García

Gonzalo García Núñez (born February 16, 1947) is a Peruvian [engineer industrial] from the Peruvian University of Ingenieria, Lima 1968, Graduate of the French center of economics programs CEPE, Phd. in economics from Grenoble University, he is a professor, banker, entrepreneur, economist and politician. Full Professor of Macroeconomics and industrial organisation of the Peruvian University of Engineering, he was elected General Secretary, President of the chapter of industrial and economics engineers, President of the Society of Professors of the University of engineering, secretary and chairman of the faculty of systems engineers and President of the national engineer institution of Peru, the Colegio de Ingenieros del Peru. With the Izquierda Unida party in 1983 he was elected counsellor of the Mayor of Lima, reelected in 1986 and he was candidate to the high chamber of representatives in 1990, by Izquierda Socialista. He was an opponent of former President Alberto Fujimori in the Foro Democratico ngo. He was elected Central Bank director by an absolute majority of the Peruvian congress in 2001. Member of "Justice and Liberty" he was invited by Ollanta Humala, the candidate of the Peruvian Nationalist Partyand he ran as Ollanta Humala's first Vice President during the 2006 national election on the coalition between Union for PeruPeruvian Nationalist Party. The ticket won in the first round of voting with 31 per cent of the total vote but lost in the second round (47.6%). Gonzalo Garcia was responsible of the large team of government planning of the ticket, editor of the plan named The Great Transformation, in honour of Karl Polanyi, and native name Llapanckik in Quechua.

García was formerly a member of the board of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru. In this period the inflation was 2 per cent average between 2001 and 2006, the exchange rate was very stable and the international reserves growth at the high level of the economic history of Peru. The board approved the inflation targeting rule in December 2001 and ran the monetary policy with a very complex model of mathematical prevision and forecasts during the recent five years. He also served in the UN system and he is the author of the vision of Peruvian marginalized people and The Net of production system of Villa El Salvador, a shanty town of Lima. Since 1982 he has written editorials for La Republica, one of Peru's greatest newspapers. In November 2006, invited by Ollanta and his allies, Gonzalo García was a candidate only of the Ollanta party and could not be elected mayor of Lima.