He was only in charge of Infrastructure for a month and a half

When the formation of Javier Milei’s Cabinet was more speculation than confirmed names, weeks before the inauguration of the new President, the businessman Guillermo Ferraro He came out to confirm that he was going to be in charge of the Infrastructure. His administration lasts little, just 45 days: This Thursday he became the first minister ejected from the Government.

It is a mega-ministry that concentrates three key areas, and that aims to encourage the private sector to invest in work for the country “The approach we have is that The State has to reduce its participation in the economy to give space to the private sector,” he said in an interview about the direction he intended for his management.

Under Ferraro’s orbit were the undersecretaries of Transportation, Public Works and Communications. The experience of the displaced minister is linked to the development of megaprojects financed with funds from multilateral organizations, according to what he said in said interview.

Its objective was to bring public works to a model like the Chilean one, of private initiative, where they charge a fee to users for the services they offer. In the interview prior to his inauguration, he mentioned the idea of Charge carriers for the use of new routes. that will connect the countryside with the road ports.

Ferraro was one of the ministers chosen by Milei to defend the Omnibus Law this month in the plenary session of Deputies.

Shortly after the beginning of the Government, had lost two central areas -Mining and Energy-, that finally fell under the orbit of the Ministry of Economy managed by Luis Caputo.

After a month named to his closest team and when he knew the organizational chart of functions, the creation of the Secretariat of Public Companies appeared, dependent on the Chief of Staff, which It further cut his power.

Ferraro, who He has known Milei for more than 15 years, he had been key in the campaign which led to his election as president. He was in charge of the National Coordination of the Supervision of La Libertad Avanza in the general elections and in the second round. He replaced Fernando Cerimedo, who was responsible for the Primaries.

Milei had announced Ferraro in September, during an event organized in Parque Norte by Luis Barrionuevo, when the very brief leap from gastronomic to liberalism had taken place. At that event Milei spoke for just over an hour and announced that I had it in the folder for Infrastructure. “Welcome to the forces of heaven,” she said. On that occasion, he had also announced Emilio Ocampo in the Central Bank, with the mission of closing it.

Ferraro is a public accountant, degree in Administration, Doctorate in Economic Sciences and Post-graduate degree in Systems Engineering. Former Professor of Principles of Administration (UBA) and Post-Graduate in “Scientific Methodology”, according to the biography that appears on the Ferraro Camacho & Asociados website, the consulting firm he founded in the 70s.

The CV of the fired minister includes steps in both the private and public sectors. He was director of Infrastructure and Government at KPMG between 2010 and 2023, where he led the advice on different projects such as the Aconcagua railway tunnel, the Chihuido Hydroelectric Plant, the Ushuaia cargo port and PPPs for road corridors.

In 2009 he was part of the technical teams of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. He was also director of Banco de Entre Ríos between 2003 and 2005, and of Banco Bisel between 2003 and 2007.

Before it was Undersecretary of Industry between 2002 and 2003, under the presidency of Eduardo Duhalde, and vice president of Nación Servicios and between 2005 and 2007, During the administration of Néstor Kirchner.

ferraro He was chief of advisors in the Senate of Antonio Cafiero, The historic Peronist leader. In the 1990s he also worked in the Constituent Convention that was in charge of the 1994 constitutional reform, which enabled the re-election of then-president Carlos Menem.