Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (Spanish pronunciation: [%CB%88pe%C3%B0%C9%BEo ˈpaβlo kukˈʃiŋski ɣoˈðaɾð]; born October 3, 1938), better known simply as PPK, is a Peruvian economist, politician and public administrator who was elected as President of Peru in 2016.[1] He served as Prime Minister of Peru from 2005 to 2006.

Kuczynski worked in the United States before entering Peruvian politics.[2] He held positions at both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund before being designated as general manager of Peru's Central Reserve Bank. He later served as Minister of Energy and Mines in the early 1980s under President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, and as Minister of Economy and Finance and Prime Minister under President Alejandro Toledo in the 2000s...[3]

...Kuczynski was born at the Clínica Delgado in Lima, Peru, the son of Madeleine Godard, who was of Swiss-French descent, and German immigrant Maxime Hans Kuczynski, who was born near Poznań and was one of the earliest public health leaders in Peru.[6][7][8] His parents, who were Jewish, fled Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazis.[9] He received his early education at Markham College in Lima, Peru, and Rossall School in Lancashire, England where he was a pupil in Maltese Cross House between 1953 and 1956. He won a foundation scholarship to study at Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics in 1960. Later, he received the John Parker Compton fellowship to study public affairs at Princeton University in the United States, where he received a master's degree in 1961. He began his career at the World Bank in 1961 as a regional economist for six countries in Central America, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.[10] His father, Maxime Hans Kuczynski, born in Poznań, a Polish city then part of the German Empire, was a renowned pathologist and tropical disease specialist, in particular expert on Verruga peruana or Carrion's disease. He trained at the Universities of Rostock and Berlin, where he was professor of pathology. An officer in the German army on the Eastern and Turkish fronts in the First World War, he travelled widely in Russia, China, West Africa, and Brazil. Leaving Germany in 1933 because of his Jewish roots, he was invited to Peru in 1936 by President Óscar R. Benavides to set up the public health service in the interior of the country. Maxime Hans Kuczynski reformed the San Pablo leprosarium on the Amazon at the Brazilian frontier, set up a public health colony on the Perene river, and was later professor of tropical medicine at National University of San Marcos in Lima...[18]

...Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard has been married twice, first to Jane Dudley Casey (daughter of Joseph E. Casey, member of the U.S. House for the 3rd district of Massachusetts), their offspring being corporate executive and technology entrepreneur, Carolina Madeleine Kuczynski, the journalist Alex Kuczynski,[12] and John-Michael Kuczynski. His current wife is Nancy Lange, with whom he has had a daughter. Kuczynski's younger brother Miguel Jorge is a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge; and their first cousin is Jean-Luc Godard, the renowned French-Swiss film director. Kuczynski's brother-in-law Harold Varmus received the Nobel Prize for cancer research in 1989.

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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (pronunciado /kuchínski/ en fonética española; Lima, 3 de octubre de 1938), también conocido como PPK, es un economista, empresario, banquero y político peruano. Fue presidente de la República del Perú desde el 28 de julio de 2016 hasta su renuncia el 23 de marzo de 2018.

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