Jonathan Menkos
Jonathan Menkos | |
|---|---|
| File:Retrato oficial de Jonathan Menkos, Deputado del Congreso (cropped).jpg Official portrait as member of Congress, 2024 | |
| Minister of Public Finance | |
| Assumed office 19 January 2024 | |
| President | Bernardo Arévalo |
| Preceded by | Edwin Oswaldo Martínez Cameros |
| Member of the Congress of Guatemala | |
| In office 14 January 2024 – 19 January 2024 | |
| Succeeded by | Olga Isabel Villalta Pereira |
| Constituency | National List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 June 1975 Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| Political party | Semilla |
| Alma mater | Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Universidad de Valparaíso |
| Website | https://jonathanmenkos.org |
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Jonathan Kiril Thomas Menkos Zeissig (born 29 June 1975) is a Guatemalan economist, politician, writer, academic and analyst serving as Guatemala's Minister of Public Finance since January 19, 2024.[1][2] He previously served as president of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (ICEFI) starting September 2012.[3][4] On March 5, 2019, the Board of Directors of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies announced that Menkos requested a license to be absent from his duties as President of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies from March 1 to August 15, 2019. Hours later, the political party Movimiento Semilla announced that Menkos had been elected as its vice presidential candidate and running mate of ex-attorney general Thelma Aldana,[5][6] however Aldana was disqualified from the presidential race.[7]
References
- ↑ "Arévalo juramenta a Jonathan Menkos como Ministro de Finanzas" (in español). 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
- ↑ "Revelan nombres de algunas personas que integrarán el Gabinete de Bernardo Arévalo" (in español). 2023-12-20. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ↑ "Semilla confirma a Jonathan Menkos como vicepresidenciable junto con Thelma Aldana". Publinews (in Spanish). 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Thelma Aldana ya tendría candidato a vicepresidente". Soy502 (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Thelma Aldana y Jonathan Menkos son el binomio de Semilla". La Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "El vice de Thelma Aldana y por qué Semilla lo eligió a él". Nómada (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Cuffe, Sandra (15 May 2019). "Guatemala court rules popular anti-corruption crusader ineligible to run for president". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
