Background
Michetti was born in 1965 in the Buenos Aires Province town of Laprida.
Michetti was born in 1965 in the Buenos Aires Province town of Laprida.
Universidad del Salvador.
Michetti was Deputy Head of Government in Buenos Aires during the first tenure of Mayor Mauricio Macri. She has served as Senator for Buenos Aires since 2013. Michetti took office as Vice President of Argentina on December 10, 2015.
She is grandniece of former President, Doctor Arturo Illia
She earned a degree in International Relations at the Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, in 1988.
Municipal
Michetti entered public service in 1989 in the Province of Buenos Aires, and the following year joined the executive staff as a technical adviser at the Argentine Ministry of Economy. The party became part of the Public Relations Officer movement, and she was elected that year to the Buenos Aires City Legislature, where she led the Commitment to Change caucus.
Michetti gained recognition in 2006 while leading the inquiry committee looking into alleged negligence after a fire at the República Cromagnon nightclub led to the deaths of 194 people. The scandal led to the resignation of Aníbal Ibarra, then mayor of Buenos Aires.
Michetti was nominated as running mate for Mauricio Macri in 2007, and the ticket resulted elected to office of Mayor and Vice Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires with 61% of the vote, defeating Daniel Filmus and Carlos Heller of the Front for Victory.
Michetti thus became the first woman elected Deputy Mayor of Buenos Aires. She directed two planning committees, Programa Puertas del Bicentenario and the Consejo de Planeamiento Estratégico, and drew from her personal tragedy to lead the newly created Commission for the Inclusion and Full Participation of Persons with Disabilities (COPIDIS). Legislative
Ahead of the 2009 elections for Congress, Michetti"s name was frequently mentioned as a likely candidate for National Deputy, despite serving less than two years in municipal government.
By April, her candidature appeared less likely given the manoeuvres of all the main parties.
However, on April 20, Michetti resigned as Deputy Head of Government and confirmed that she would lead the Public Relations Officer list for Buenos Aires for national deputies. Vice presidency
She rejected to run for vice president under Macri in the 2015 national elections, and tried to run for mayor of Buenos Aires instead.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta defeated her during the primary elections, and would run for the Republican Proposal instead. Finally, she ran for vice president under Macri in 2015.
In 2008 and 2009, for example she participated in the South American Business Forum as Speaker.
She took office on December 10, 2015.
Although employed as a professional rather than as a politician, Michetti was political, working through her church on social projects and becoming close to Carlos Auyero of the Christian Democratic Party and FrePaSo. Michetti joined the Commitment to Change party led by Mauricio Macri in 2003.