Miguel Gustavo Peirano

Miguel Gustavo Peirano (born October 1, 1966) is an Argentine economist and former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina. He was appointed by President Néstor Kirchner on July 17, 2007, in place of Felisa Miceli.
Biography
Peirano was born in Buenos Aires. He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires with a degree in Economics, and began his career in 1989 as a market risk analyst at the Banco Sudameris. Peirano has worked both in the public and the private sector. Between 1990 and 1992 he worked in the multinational Techint group. He later taught Economics at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, and served as adviser for the City of Buenos Aires General Directorate of Industry, for the Board of the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires, and as president of the Economics department of the Buenos Aires chapter of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), the nation's leading manufacturing lobby; Peirano occupied various posts in the UIA itself from...