Alberto Estanislao Sileoni (born 1952) is an Argentine academic and policy maker who served as a former Minister of Education.
Alberto Sileoni enrolled in the
University of Buenos Aires and earned a degree in History, in 1975. He later taught the discipline at his alma mater, and in 1993, was named Director of Adult Education Services for the City of
Buenos Aires. He was shortly afterwards appointed the city's Undersecretary of Education, remaining in the post until the election of Mayor
Fernando de la Rúa, in 1996.
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Sileoni was transferred to the National Education Ministry, where he directed the Education and Work Project. The election of Mayor de la Rúa as President in late 1999 resulted in the project's replacement and Sileoni's appointment as Director of Secondary Education and Undersecretary for Buenos Aires Province
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Governor Carlos Ruckauf
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The election of a center-left ]Peronist
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, Néstor Kirchner, resulted in Sileoni's appointment as Vice Minister of Education in June 2003, a post he held until Minister Daniel Filmus
Daniel Fernando Filmus (; born June 3, 1955) is an Argentine politician and academic, currently serving as the country's Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, since 2021.
Filmus formerly served as a National Senator for the City of Bu ...
transferred him to the City of Buenos Aires, in March 2006. He served as Education Minister for Mayor Jorge Telerman until Filmus declared his candidacy for Mayor, in early 2007; considering his friendship with Filmus a potential conflict of interest (when Mayor Telerman sought reelection), Sileoni resigned in February of that year.
The election of Kirchner's wife, Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as President in late 2007 resulted in Sileoni's appointment as second-in-command for Education Minister Juan Carlos Tedesco Juan Carlos Tedesco (5 February 1944 – 8 May 2017) was an Argentine academic and policy maker who was the President's Education Minister, from December 2007 to July 2009.
Life and career
Tedesco was born in Buenos Aires in 1944. Enrolling at ...
, a UNESCO official. A disappointing showing in the June 2009 mid-term elections en 2009 and a subsequent cabinet-shake-up, however, led to Sileoni's appointment as Education Minister in replacement of Tedesco, who was made Director of the Ministry's Planning and Evaluation Unit.''Buenos Aires Herald'': Tedesco resigns, replaced by Sileoni
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References and external links
Argentine Ministry of Education
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1952 births
Living people
Argentine ministers of education
University of Buenos Aires faculty
University of Buenos Aires alumni
Argentine people of Italian descent