Gonzalo García Núñez (born 16 February 1947) is a

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vian industrial engineer from the Peruvian University of Ingenieria, Lima 1968, Graduate of the French center of economics programs CEPE, Phd. in economics from Grenoble University, he is a professor, banker, entrepreneur,

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and politician. Full Professor of Macroeconomics and industrial organisation of the Peruvian University of Engineering, he was elected General Secretary, President of the chapter of industrial and economics engineers, President of the Society of Professors of the University of engineering, secretary and chairman of the faculty of systems engineers and President of the national engineer institution of Peru, the Colegio de Ingenieros del Peru. With the Izquierda Unida party in 1983 he was elected Councillor of Lima, reelected in 1986 and he was candidate to the upper house of the Congress in 1990, under the

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, but he was unsuccessful. He was an opponent of former President

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in the Foro Democratico ngo. He was elected Central Bank director by an absolute majority of the Peruvian congress in 2001. Member of "Justice and Liberty" he was invited by Ollanta Humala, the candidate of the

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and he ran as

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's first Vice President during the 2006 national election on the coalition between

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and the

. The ticket won in the first round of voting with 30.6% of the total vote but lost in the second round (47.6%). Gonzalo Garcia was responsible of the large team of government planning of the ticket, editor of the plan named The Great Transformation, in honour of Karl Polanyi, and native name Llapanckik in

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. García was formerly a member of the board of the

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. In this period the inflation was 2 per cent average between 2001 and 2006, the exchange rate was very stable and the international reserves growth at the high level of the economic history of Peru. The board approved the inflation targeting rule in December 2001, proposed by experts of the bank, and ran the monetary policy with a very complex model of mathematical prevision and forecasts during the recent five years. He also served in the UN system and he is the author of the vision of Peruvian marginalized people and The Net of production system of Villa El Salvador, a shanty town of Lima. Since 1982 he has written editorials for La Republica, one of Peru's greatest newspapers. In October 2006, invited by Humala and his allies for the 2006 local and regional election, Gonzalo García was a candidate only of the Ollanta’s Nationalist Party and was not elected mayor of

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, losing to the-then incumbent Mayor Luis Castañeda. He works as a teacher in the Postgraduate section of UNI and a consultant for international scientific and technical cooperation organizations. For the period 2011-2012, he was elected as President of the National Council of the Magistracy. who was elected by universal, direct and secret vote of the professionals of Peru.

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Living people 1947 births United Left (Peru) politicians Socialist Left (Peru) politicians Peruvian Nationalist Party politicians {{Peru-politician-stub Union for Peru politicians Politicians from Lima