He was born on March 28, 1946 in Cabana, Ancash department in the province of Pallasca, and grew up in Chimbote, on the north coast of Peru. He worked in his childhood as boot polish, caretaker of sheep and candy man. He was an altar boy at her local church in Chimbote.
Education
He attended primary school in Minerva, the Trench district.
Student of the GUE San Pedro, earn some school literary competitions and was appointed correspondent for the newspaper La Prensa in Chimbote having the opportunity to interview many politicians of the time, such as Victor Raul Haya de la Torre and Fernando Belaunde Terry.
Gets a scholarship in the United States and studied economics at the University of San Francisco. Enter at Stanford University, where he obtained two masters and finally a doctorate (PhD) in Human Resource Economics.
Career
He was consultant to the UN, World Bank, IDB, ILO in Geneva and the OECD in Paris. In the academic field is permanent professor ESAN Since 1991 to 1994 and has been a research associate in economics from Harvard Institute for International Development. Advisor of three Latin American governments and Visiting Professor of Waseda University and the Japan Foundation in Tokyo, Japan. He has published several books on the subjects of their specialty: The Social Investment for Growth, structural reforms in the economy, etc.
In 1995, he ran for the presidency by the Democratic Alliance-Country Coordinator Possible and reached 3.24% of the votes. It appeared again in 2000, by the party he founded, and gained 23.24% in the second round. He became president of Peru on July 28, 2001 for the period 2001-2006 with the challenges of healing the wounds of a corruption scandal splashed all spheres of power and improve the economic situation of the country, half of whose inhabitants living in poverty.
Politics
Founder and president of the Peru Possible Party and one of the most prestigious economists and international credibility.