Juan Schiaretti

Infobox_Governor
name= Juan Schiaretti


caption= Juan Schiaretti
order=58^th
office= Governor of Córdoba
term_start=December 10, 2007
term_end=
lieutenant= Héctor Campana
predecessor= José Manuel de la Sota
successor= Incumbent
birth_date= Birth date and age|1949|6|19|mf=y
birth_place= Córdoba
profession= Accountant
party= Justicialist Party
footnotes=

Juan Schiaretti (19 June, 1949 in Talleres, Córdoba), known as 'El Gringo', is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician and accountant. He is the governor of the Province of Córdoba.

Schiaretti's father was Dante Schiaretti, a railway worker and Peronist activist descended from immigrants from Parma. He was imprisoned after the military coup which toppled Perón in 1955. His mother is Julia Álamo, a housewife. Schiaretti studied at the Escuela Pública Nacional 95, in the Talleres Oeste neighbourhood, then at the Liceo Militar General Paz, which he entered at eleven and left with the gold medal for best academic achievement of his group (1961 to 1965). He studied for his degree in the Economic Sciences Faculty of the National University of Córdoba, where he qualified as a public accountant aged 21. He married a fellow political activist and had two children.

In 1975, Schiaretti was threatened by the Triple A and moved with his family to Neuquén. The military coup of 1976 forced him into exile in Brazil. He worked as a salesman then found work as an administrative assistant at Fiat in Belo Horizonte. He stayed with the company and rose to be deputy director of administration.

In 1984, Schiaretti returned to Argentina and separated from his wife. He worked in politics and was sub-secretary of Latin American Integration in the Ministry of International Relations under President Menem between 1989 and 1981, then Secretary of Industry and Commerce in the Ministry of Economy between 1991 and 1993, during the same administration. He was appointed federal conservator of the Province of Santiago del Estero from 1993 to 1995, following the removal of the province's governor, and was then was elected deputy for Córdoba Province in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, serving from 1995 to 1997. He was provincial minister of production in Córdoba from 1999 to 2001, then returned as Deputy for the province from 2001 to 2002 before becoming provincial Minister of Production and Finances 2002-03.

In 2003, Schiaretti was elected vice-governor of his province with José Manuel de la Sota as governor. In 2007, upon de la Sota's retirement, Schiaretti stood for the governorship for the Justicialist Party in the Union for Córdoba Coalition, with Héctor 'Pichi' Campana (a former basketball player and New Party councillor who had originally intended to stand in his own right). His principal opponent was the Mayor of Córdoba, Luis Juez and Schiaretti trailed in the polls for some time. In the 2007 election, there were claims of electoral fraud and the result went to recounts and was finally declared for Schiaretti by the electoral court of the province.

In 1997, Schiaretti married Córdoba politician Alejandra María Vigo, secretary general of the Córdoba section of the housewives' union.