Public accountant and politician, Argentine Juan Schiaretti is the current governor of the province of Córdoba, elected in 2015. He is a member of the Justicialist Party and was Secretary of Industry and Commerce of Argentina. He also served twice as a national deputy and was governor of Santiago del Estero in the role of federal intervenor.
Juan Schiaretti was born in Córdoba on June 19, 1949. His father, Dante Schiaretti, was a railway employee and Peronist militant. Juan Schiaretti graduated as a Public Accountant at the early age of 21, after studying at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of Córdoba.
A militant of left-wing Peronism, he was appointed to the technical staff of the Directorate of Commerce and Industry of Córdoba in 1974, after Ricardo Obregón Cano was elected governor that same year.
Exile and return
After the coup d’état in Argentina in 1976, Schiaretti went into exile in Brazil, where he held various jobs until reaching high-level management positions at Fiat in Belo Horizonte. He returned to Argentina in 1984.
In 1991, Schiaretti was appointed Secretary of Industry and Commerce of the Nation, under the Ministry of Economy, during the presidency of Carlos Menem.
In 1993, he was elected national deputy for Córdoba, leading the Justicialist Party list. By the end of 1993, he was appointed federal intervenor of the province of Santiago del Estero, after the uprising known as the “santiagueñazo,” serving until 1995. In 2001, he was elected once again as a national deputy for Córdoba.
Between 2007 and 2011, he served as governor of Córdoba. In 2013, he won a seat in the Lower House, which he held until resigning in December 2015 to assume his new term as governor of the province of Córdoba, where he received 39.4% of the votes.
Among his management plans before the end of his term are the modernization of the police and the construction of 40 public schools.