Eric Calcagno

Infobox Senator | name=Eric Calcagno y Maillmann
nationality=Argentine


office=Subsecretary of Small and Medium Enterprises
president=Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
term_start=2007
term_end=
preceded=
succeeded=
office2=Argentine Senator
from Buenos Aires Province
party=Justicialist
term_start2=10 December 2007
On leave of absence
term_end2=
preceded2=Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
succeeded2=
ambassador_from3=Argentina
country3=France
president3=Néstor Kirchner
term_start3=December 2005
term_end3=2007
preceded3=Archibaldo Lanús
succeeded3=Luis Ureta Sáenz Peña
date of birth=birth date and age|1955|12|14
place of birth=La Plata
dead=alive
date of death=
place of death=
spouse=
religion=
profession=Economist
website=

Eric Calcagno y Maillmann (b. 9 April 1967, La Plata) is an Argentine economist, journalist, diplomat and politician. Having been the Ambassador to France, he became a member of the Argentine Senate in 2007 before joining the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as a junior minister.

Calcagno comes from a family with a strong background in academia and connections with France. His grandfather Alfredo Domingo Calcagno, rector of the National University of La Plata, was the Argentine ambassador to UNESCO in Paris during the Presidency of Arturo Frondizi. His father, Alfred Eric Calcagno, studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris before working for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America for more than twenty years. Calcagno studied at French schools and, in the early 1990s, graduated from the École Nationale d'Administration in France in public administration and from the Sorbonne in sociology. ["Clarín": [http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/12/09/um/m-01104964.htm Eric Calcagno, un intelectual con fuertes raíces en Francia] , 9 December 2005.]

Calcagno worked as a economics consultant and journalist, including for "Le Monde Diplomatique" (Southern Cone Edition), "Diario Hoy" of La Plata, the magazines "Veintitrés" and "Veintitrés Internacional" and Terra. With his father he co-wrote two books on politics and economics: "Para entender la política, entre la ilusión de lo óptimo y la realidad de lo pésimo", Editorial Norma (Buenos Aires, 1999) and "La deuda externa explicada a todos (los que tienen que pagarla)", Editorial Catálogos (Buenos Aires, 2000). [Terra: [http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:gUckU_gqmrsJ:www.terra.com.ar/canales/politica/22/22171.html+eric+calcagno&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&client=firefox-a Quién es Eric Calcagno] . Accessed 28 April 2008.] In 2005 he published "Terra incógnita, crónica de la caída de la convertibilidad" (Catálogos). He was known as a critic of neoliberal economics and the Washington Consensus. He teamed up with his father to teach economics at the National University of Lanús, Buenos Aires and taught a range of other universities, including as Director of the Centre of Studies of National Economic Thought (CEPEN) at the University of Buenos Aires. [ [http://www.mrecic.gov.ar/portal/prensa/comunicado.php?buscar=1948&fecha=17/01/2006&numero=026/06&titulo=Nuevo%20embajador%20argentino%20en%20Francia Government Press Release 026/06 'Nuevo embajador argentino en Francia'] , 17 January 2006.]

In 2005, Calcagno was a reserve member on the Front for Victory list for the Senate for Buenos Aires Province. The list was headed by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and was successful in the October elections, winning the maximum two places. Shortly after the election, in December 2005, Calcagno was named Ambassador to France, after Rafael Bielsa had accepted that position only to reject it a day later in public. ["Clarín": [http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/12/10/elpais/p-01801.htm Un sociólogo educado en París es el nuevo embajador en Francia] , 10 December 2005.] In 2007, upon the election of Fernández de Kirchner as President of Argentina, Calcagno replaced her in the Senate. However, within ten days he was granted a leave of absence to take up the President's offer of a position in government. He became subsecretary of Small and Medium Enterprises. ["La Nacion": [http://www.lanacion.com.ar/991479 Polémica por los 6 meses de licencia para Eric Calcagno] , 29 February 2008.]

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