Jaime Quijandría Salmón (June 19, 1943 – December 30, 2013) was a Peruvian economist and politician.

Early life

Born in Lima in 1943 to Benjamín and Lola Quijandría Salmón, he studied economics at the

National Agrarian University The National Agrarian University, also formally called National Agrarian University – La Molina (Spanish: ''Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina'') (UNALM), is a public university in Lima, Peru. It is the country's best university in the fi ...

in 1965. He went on to obtain a master's degree in Social Sciences with a major in economics at

The Hague University of Applied Sciences The Hague University of Applied Sciences ( nl, De Haagse Hogeschool), abbreviated THUAS, is a university of applied sciences with its campuses located in and around The Hague in the Randstad metropolitan region in the west of the Netherlands. Th ...

in 1968. He also graduated in 1971 with a PhD in Economics and Government at the University of Essex in the UK.

Political career

From July 28, 2001, until July 2003, he was the Minister of Energy and Mines. On July 25, 2003, he was appointed Minister of Economy and Finance, where he served until February 2004, when he returned to the Ministry of Energy office to serve until October of that year.Batalla por el ITF - Caretas
He died from pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 70 in December 2013.

References

External links

Energía y Desarrollo (Energy and Development) Blog
at esan.edu
Quijandría family
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