Maria Luisa Hayem Brevé is a

Salvadoran Salvadorans (), also known as Salvadorians, are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America. Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvadoran diaspora, particularly in the United States, with smalle ...

economist and politician. She became the Minister of the Economy of Salvador in 2019.

Life

Hayem was educated as an economist with her first degree from the Higher School of Economics and Business in La Libertad. She studied in America at

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and at the Ecole Supérieure Robert de Sorbon in France, and as a result she also speaks Spanish, English and French. In 2003 she was in

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employed at El Salvador's Permanent Mission to the

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. She worked as a Finance Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank. In 2010 she formed a non-profit organisation named ''Mentoring International'' which provides mentors for young people in El Salvador. She was self employed when she became one of the last people to be appointed to President

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cabinet of eight men and eight women in 2019. She was appointed until 2024. El Salvador has poor relative growth and Hayem plans to reactivate her country's economy. Reactivation was affected by the Coronavirus pandemic when 110,000 Salvadorans lost their jobs. Hayem had to deal with efforts to bring the country back from lockdown.

References

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