# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alejandro-gaviria
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:20:11.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alejandro-gaviria"
name: "Alejandro Gaviria"
slug: "alejandro-gaviria"
description: "Alejandro Gaviria Uribe is a Colombian economist and engineer, serving as the Minister of National Education of Colombia since 7 August 2022, replacing María Victoria Angulo. He also served as Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia from 2012 to 2018. He is the former Rector of the University of Los Andes (Colombia), where he served from 2019 to August 2021. He was Dean of the School of Economics at University of los Andes in 2006, until his appointment as Minister in 2012. Prior to his academic career, Gaviria served as Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia, as well as Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Higher Education and Development (Fedesarrollo), a private non-profit policy research centre, and as a Researcher at the Inter-American Development Bank. He is a published author of several books and scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals."
tagline: "Colombian economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alejandro_Gaviria_RT.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.36
  momentum:             25
  historical:           7.008620000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/agaviriau"
    handle:    "agaviriau"
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    title: "Alejandro Gaviria Uribe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Gaviria"
    title: "Alejandro Gaviria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Gaviria"
    title: "Alejandro Gaviria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Gaviria"
    title: "Alejandro Gaviria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Gaviria"
    title: "Alejandro Gaviria"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Gaviria"
    title: "Alejandro Gaviria"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump