# Ministry of Economy (Argentina)

The Ministry of Economy (Spanish: Ministerio de Economía) of Argentina is the country's state treasury and a ministry of the national executive power that manages economic policy.
The Ministry of Economy is one of the oldest ministries in the Argentine government, having existed continuously since the formation of the first Argentine executive in 1854, in the presidency of Justo José de Urquiza – albeit under the name of Ministry of the Treasury. The current minister responsible is Luis Caputo, who has served since 2023 in the cabinet of Javier Milei.

## Headquarters

The Argentine Ministry of the Treasury has, since the building's 1939 inaugural, been based in a 14-story Rationalist office building designed by local architect Carlos Pibernat. The Economy Ministry building was built on a 0.57 ha (1.4 ac) Montserrat neighborhood lot facing the Casa Rosada presidential office building to the north, and the Defense Ministry (Libertador Building) to the east – a government building also designed by Pibernat.
The building's lobby was decorated with murals painted by the architect's brother, Antonio Pibernat, a Post-Impressionist painter influenced by the naturalist Barbizon School.
The post has existed on a formal basis since the 1826 inaugural of Bernardino Rivadavia, who named lawmaker Salvador María del Carril as the nation's first official Ministro de Hacienda. The office became among the most powerful in Argentine Government during the generation after 1880, when English Argentine investment, foreign trade, and immigration spurred development. Customs collections (source of over half of public revenues at the time) and the Central Bank were among the responsibilities placed under the Economy Ministry's aegis, and successive ministers' policies were often enacted through presidential decrees.
Its influence grew further when it absorbed the cabinet post of Minister of Public Works in 1991, to help facilitate Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo's privatizations initiative, and, in turn, divested oversight over the nation's goods-producing sectors with the 2008 designation of the Production Ministry by President Cristina Kirchner, in a bid to improve strained relations with the country's agrarian sector following the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector over export tariffs.
The Ministry of the Treasury was appropriated a US$1.7 billion operational budget in 2009, and employed over 4,000 staffers.

## List of ministers

| No. | Minister | Party | Term | President |
| Ministry of the Treasury (1854–1958) |||||||
| 1 | Mariano Fragueiro | Unitarian Party | 6 March 1854 – 10 October 1854 | Justo José de Urquiza |
| 2 | Juan del Campillo | Independent | 10 October 1854 – 2 June 1856 | Justo José de Urquiza |
| 3 | Agustín Justo de la Vega | Independent | 2 June 1856 – 16 April 1857 | Justo José de Urquiza |
| 4 | Elías Bedoya | Independent | 18 April 1857 – 16 December 1859 | Justo José de Urquiza |
| 5 | Pedro Lucas Funes | Independent | 16 December 1859 – 5 March 1860 | Justo José de Urquiza |
| 6 | Tomás Arias | Independent | 14 March 1860 – 11 August 1860 | Santiago Derqui |
| 7 | Norberto de la Riestra | Unitarian Party | 11 August 1860 – 6 February 1861 | Santiago Derqui |
| 8 | Vicente del Castillo | Independent | 6 February 1861 – 5 November 1861 | Santiago Derqui |
| 9 | Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield | Unitarian Party | 12 October 1862 – 29 February 1864 | Bartolomé Mitre |
| 10 | Lucas González | Independent | 29 February 1864 – 12 October 1868 | Bartolomé Mitre |
| 11 | José Benjamín Gorostiaga | Nationalist Party | 12 October 1868 – 13 October 1870 | Domingo Faustino Sarmiento |
| 12 | Luis Lorenzo Domínguez | Independent | 13 October 1870 – 13 February 1874 | Domingo Faustino Sarmiento |
| 13 | Santiago Cortínez | Independent | 13 February 1870 – 12 October 1874 | Domingo Faustino Sarmiento |
| 13 | Santiago Cortínez | Independent | 12 October 1874 – 2 August 1875 | Nicolás Avellaneda |
| 14 | Lucas González | Independent | 2 August 1875 – 20 May 1876 | Nicolás Avellaneda |
| 15 | Norberto de la Riestra | Independent | 20 May 1876 – 26 August 1876 | Nicolás Avellaneda |
| 16 | Victorino de la Plaza | Independent | 31 August 1876 – 7 May 1880 | Nicolás Avellaneda |
| 17 | Santiago Cortínez | National Autonomist Party | 7 May 1880 – 12 October 1880 | Nicolás Avellaneda |
| 18 | Juan José Romero | Independent | 12 October 1880 – 12 October 1883 | Julio Argentino Roca |
| 19 | Victorino de la Plaza | National Autonomist Party | 25 October 1883 – 9 March 1885 | Julio Argentino Roca |
| 20 | Wenceslao Pacheco | National Autonomist Party | 9 March 1885 – 12 October 1886 | Julio Argentino Roca |
| 20 | Wenceslao Pacheco | National Autonomist Party | 12 October 1886 – 28 February 1889 | Miguel Ángel Juárez |
| 21 | Rufino Varela | National Autonomist Party | 28 February 1889 – 24 August 1889 | Miguel Ángel Juárez |
| 22 | Wenceslao Pacheco | National Autonomist Party | 27 August 1889 – 14 April 1890 | Miguel Ángel Juárez |
| 23 | Francisco Uriburu | National Autonomist Party | 18 April 1890 – 7 June 1890 | Miguel Ángel Juárez |
| 24 | Juan A. García Seoane | Independent | 9 June 1890 – 6 August 1890 | Miguel Ángel Juárez |
| 25 | Vicente Fidel López | National Autonomist Party | 7 August 1890 – 22 October 1891 | Carlos Pellegrini |
| 26 | Emilio Hansen | Independent | 22 October 1891 – 12 October 1892 | Carlos Pellegrini |
| 27 | Juan José Romero | Independent | 12 October 1892 – 7 June 1893 | Luis Sáenz Peña |
| 28 | Marco Aurelio Avellaneda | National Autonomist Party | 7 June 1893 – 5 July 1893 | Luis Sáenz Peña |
| 29 | Mariano Demaría | Independent | 5 July 1893 – 12 August 1893 | Luis Sáenz Peña |
| 30 | José A. Terry | National Autonomist Party | 12 August 1893 – 23 January 1895 | Luis Sáenz Peña |
| 31 | Juan José Romero | National Autonomist Party | 23 January 1895 – 21 October 1897 | José Evaristo Uriburu |
| 32 | Wenceslao Escalante | National Autonomist Party | 21 October 1897 – 12 October 1898 | José Evaristo Uriburu |
| 33 | José María Rosa | National Autonomist Party | 12 October 1898 – 2 May 1900 | Julio Argentino Roca |
| 34 | Enrique Berduc | National Autonomist Party | 2 May 1900 – 5 July 1901 | Julio Argentino Roca |
| 35 | Marco Aurelio Avellaneda | National Autonomist Party | 11 July 1901 – 12 October 1904 | Julio Argentino Roca |
| 36 | José A. Terry | National Autonomist Party | 12 October 1904 – 15 March 1906 | Manuel Quintana |
| 37 | Norberto Piñero | Independent | 15 March 1906 – 21 September 1906 | José Figueroa Alcorta |
| 38 | Eleodoro Lobos | Independent | 21 September 1906 – 20 September 1907 | José Figueroa Alcorta |
| 39 | Manuel María de Iriondo | Radical Civic Union | 20 September 1907 – 12 October 1910 | José Figueroa Alcorta |
| 40 | José María Rosa | National Autonomist Party | 12 October 1910 – 5 August 1912 | Roque Sáenz Peña |
| 41 | Enrique Simón Pérez | Independent | 5 August 1912 – 28 March 1913 | Roque Sáenz Peña |
| 42 | Norberto Piñero | Independent | 28 March 1913 – 16 July 1913 | Roque Sáenz Peña |
| 43 | Lorenzo Anadón | Independent | 21 July 1913 – 16 February 1914 | Roque Sáenz Peña |
| 44 | Enrique Carbó Ortiz | Independent | 16 February 1914 – 9 August 1914 | Roque Sáenz Peña |
| 44 | Enrique Carbó Ortiz | Independent | 9 August 1914 – 16 August 1915 | Victorino de la Plaza |
| 45 | Francisco J. Oliver | Independent | 16 August 1915 – 12 October 1916 | Victorino de la Plaza |
| 46 | Domingo Salaberry | Radical Civic Union | 12 October 1916 – 12 October 1922 | Hipólito Yrigoyen |
| 47 | Rafael Herrera Vegas | Radical Civic Union | 12 October 1922 – 8 October 1923 | Marcelo T. de Alvear |
| 48 | Víctor M. Molina | Radical Civic Union | 9 October 1923 – 12 October 1928 | Marcelo T. de Alvear |
| 49 | Enrique Pérez Colman | Radical Civic Union | 12 October 1928 – 6 September 1930 | Hipólito Yrigoyen |
| 50 | Enrique Simón Pérez | Independent | 6 September 1930 – 16 April 1931 | José Félix Uriburu |
| 51 | Enrique Uriburu | Independent | 17 April 1931 – 20 February 1932 | José Félix Uriburu |
| 52 | Alberto Hueyo | Independent | 20 February 1932 – 20 August 1933 | Agustín Pedro Justo |
| 53 | Federico Pinedo | PSI | 24 August 1933 – 30 December 1935 | Agustín Pedro Justo |
| 54 | Roberto M. Ortiz | Radical Civic Union | 30 December 1935 – 21 June 1937 | Agustín Pedro Justo |
| 55 | Carlos Alberto Acevedo | National Democratic Party | 21 June 1973 – 20 February 1938 | Agustín Pedro Justo |
| 56 | Pedro Groppo | Independent | 20 February 1938 – 2 September 1940 | Roberto M. Ortiz |
| 57 | Federico Pinedo | PSI | 2 September 1940 – 13 March 1941 | Roberto M. Ortiz |
| 58 | Carlos Alberto Acevedo | National Democratic Party | 17 March 1941 – 27 June 1942 | Roberto M. Ortiz |
| 58 | Carlos Alberto Acevedo | National Democratic Party | 27 June 1942 – 4 June 1943 | Ramón Castillo |
| 59 | Jorge A. Santamarina | Independent | 4 June 1943 – 7 June 1943 | Arturo Rawson |
| 59 | Jorge A. Santamarina | Independent | 7 June 1943 – 14 October 1943 | Pedro Pablo Ramírez |
| 60 | César Ameghino | Independent | 15 October 1943 – 11 March 1944 | Pedro Pablo Ramírez |
| 60 | César Ameghino | Independent | 11 March 1944 – 7 May 1945 | Edelmiro Farrell |
| 61 | Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen | Independent | 7 May 1945 – 23 August 1945 | Edelmiro Farrell |
| 62 | Armando Antille | Radical Civic Union | 23 August 1945 – 20 October 1945 | Edelmiro Farrell |
| 63 | Amaro Ávalos | Independent | 20 October 1945 – 4 June 1946 | Edelmiro Farrell |
| 64 | Ramón Cereijo | Peronist Party | 4 June 1946 – 4 June 1952 | Juan Perón |
| 65 | Pedro Bonanni | Peronist Party | 4 June 1952 – 20 September 1955 | Juan Perón |
| 66 | Eugenio Folcini | Independent | 20 September 1955 – 13 November 1955 | Eduardo Lonardi |
| 67 | Eugenio Blanco | Radical Civic Union | 14 November 1955 – 25 January 1957 | Pedro Aramburu |
| 68 | Roberto Verrier | Independent | 26 January 1957 – 26 March 1957 | Pedro Aramburu |
| 69 | Adalberto Krieger Vasena | Independent | 26 March 1957 – 1 May 1958 | Pedro Aramburu |
| Ministry of Economy (1958–1966) |||||||
| 70 | Emilio Donato del Carril | Radical Civic Union | 17 June 1958 – 24 June 1959 | Arturo Frondizi |
| 71 | Álvaro Alsogaray | Independent Civic Party | 25 June 1959 – 26 April 1961 | Arturo Frondizi |
| 72 | Roberto Alemann | Independent | 26 April 1961 – 12 January 1962 | Arturo Frondizi |
| 73 | Carlos Coll Benegas | Independent | 15 January 1962 – 26 March 1962 | Arturo Frondizi |
| 74 | Jorge Wehbe | Independent | 26 March 1962 – 29 March 1962 | Arturo Frondizi |
| 74 | Jorge Wehbe | Independent | 29 March 1962 – 6 April 1962 | José María Guido |
| 75 | Federico Pinedo | Independent | 6 April 1962 – 25 April 1962 | José María Guido |
| 76 | Álvaro Alsogaray | Independent Civic Party | 30 June 1962 – 10 December 1962 | José María Guido |
| 77 | Eustaquio Méndez Delfino | Independent | 10 December 1962 – 13 May 1963 | José María Guido |
| 78 | José A. Martínez de Hoz | Independent | 21 May 1963 – 12 October 1963 | José María Guido |
| 79 | Eugenio Blanco | Radical Civic Union | 12 October 1963 – 5 August 1964 | Arturo Illia |
| 80 | Juan Carlos Pugliese | Radical Civic Union | 19 August 1964 – 28 June 1966 | Arturo Illia |
| Ministry of Economy and Labour (1966–1971) |||||||
| 81 | Jorge Salimei | Christian Democratic Party | 4 October 1966 – 3 January 1967 | Juan Carlos Onganía |
| 82 | Adalbert Krieger Vasena | Independent | 3 January 1967 – 11 June 1969 | Juan Carlos Onganía |
| 83 | José Dagnino Pastore | Independent | 11 June 1969 – 17 June 1970 | Juan Carlos Onganía |
| 84 | Carlos Moyano Llerena | Independent | 18 June 1970 – 15 October 1970 | Roberto M. Levingston |
| 85 | Aldo Ferrer | Radical Civic Union | 26 October 1970 – 21 May 1971 | Roberto M. Levingston |
| Ministry of the Treasury and Finances (1966–1971) |||||||
| 86 | Juan A. Quilici | Independent | 1 June 1971 – 11 October 1971 | Alejandro Lanusse |
| 87 | Cayetano Antonio Licciardo | Independent | 11 October 1971 – 13 October 1972 | Alejandro Lanusse |
| 88 | Jorge Wehbe | Independent | 13 October 1972 – 25 May 1973 | Alejandro Lanusse |
| Ministry of Economy (1973–1991) |||||||
| 89 | José Ber Gelbard | Communist Party | 25 May 1973 – 13 July 1973 | Héctor Cámpora |
| 89 | José Ber Gelbard | Communist Party | 13 July 1973 – 12 October 1973 | Raúl Lastiri |
| 89 | José Ber Gelbard | Communist Party | 12 October 1973 – 1 July 1974 | Juan Perón |
| 89 | José Ber Gelbard | Communist Party | 1 July 1974 – 21 October 1974 | Isabel Perón |
| 90 | Alfredo Gómez Morales | Justicialist Party | 21 October 1974 – 2 June 1975 | Isabel Perón |
| 91 | Celestino Rodrigo | Justicialist Party | 2 June 1975 – 17 July 1975 | Isabel Perón |
| 92 | Ernesto Corvalán Nanclares | Justicialist Party | 17 July 1975 – 22 July 1975 | Isabel Perón |
| 93 | Pedro Bonanni | Justicialist Party | 22 July 1975 – 11 August 1975 | Isabel Perón |
| 94 | Ernesto Corvalán Nanclares | Justicialist Party | 11 August 1975 – 14 August 1975 | Isabel Perón |
| 95 | Antonio Cafiero | Justicialist Party | 14 August 1975 – 3 February 1976 | Isabel Perón |
| 96 | Emilio Mondelli | Justicialist Party | 3 February 1976 – 24 March 1976 | Isabel Perón |
| 97 | José A. Martínez de Hoz | Independent | 29 March 1976 – 31 March 1981 | Jorge Rafael Videla |
| 98 | Lorenzo Sigaut | Independent | 1 April 1981 – 20 December 1981 | Roberto Viola |
| 99 | Roberto Alemann | Independent | 22 December 1981 – 30 June 1982 | Leopoldo Galtieri |
| 100 | José Dagnino Pastore | Independent | 2 July 1982 – 24 August 1982 | Reynaldo Bignone |
| 101 | Jorge Wehbe | Independent | 25 August 1982 – 9 December 1983 | Reynaldo Bignone |
| 102 | Bernardo Grinspun | Radical Civic Union | 10 December 1983 – 18 February 1985 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| 103 | Juan Vital Sourrouille | Independent | 18 February 1985 – 31 March 1989 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| 104 | Juan Carlos Pugliese | Radical Civic Union | 31 March 1989 – 14 May 1989 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| 105 | Jesús Rodríguez | Radical Civic Union | 14 May 1989 – 8 July 1989 | Raúl Alfonsín |
| 106 | Miguel Ángel Roig | Independent | 9 July 1989 – 14 July 1989 | Carlos Menem |
| 107 | Néstor Mario Rapanelli | Independent | 14 July 1989 – 18 December 1989 | Carlos Menem |
| 108 | Antonio Erman González | Justicialist Party | 18 December 1989 – 4 February 1991 | Carlos Menem |
| Ministry of Economy, Public Works and Services (1991-1999) |||||||
| 109 | Domingo Cavallo | Justicialist Party | 1 March 1991 – 6 August 1996 | Carlos Menem |
| 110 | Roque Fernández | Justicialist Party | 6 August 1996 – 10 December 1999 | Carlos Menem |
| Ministry of Economy (1999–2001) |||||||
| 111 | José Luis Machinea | Radical Civic Union | 10 December 1999 – 2 March 2001 | Fernando de la Rúa |
| 112 | Ricardo López Murphy | Radical Civic Union | 5 March 2001 – 19 March 2001 | Fernando de la Rúa |
| 113 | Domingo Cavallo | Action for the Republic | 20 March 2001 – 20 December 2001 | Fernando de la Rúa |
| Secretary of the Treasury, Public Finances and Income (2001–2002) |||||||
| 114 | Rodolfo Frigeri | Justicialist Party | 23 December 2001 – 30 December 2001 | Adolfo Rodríguez Saá |
| Ministry of Economy (2002) |||||||
| 115 | Jorge Remes Lenicov | Justicialist Party | 3 January 2002 – 27 April 2002 | Eduardo Duhalde |
| Ministry of Economy and Production (2002–2008) |||||||
| 116 | Roberto Lavagna | Justicialist Party | 27 April 2002 – 25 May 2003 | Eduardo Duhalde |
| 116 | Roberto Lavagna | Justicialist Party | 25 May 2003 – 27 November 2005 | Néstor Kirchner |
| 117 | Felisa Miceli | Independent | 28 November 2005 – 16 July 2007 | Néstor Kirchner |
| 118 | Miguel Gustavo Peirano | Independent | 17 July 2007 – 10 December 2007 | Néstor Kirchner |
| 119 | Martín Lousteau | Independent | 10 December 2007 – 24 April 2008 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Ministry of Economy and Public Finances (2002–2008) |||||||
| 120 | Carlos Rafael Fernández | Justicialist Party | 25 April 2008 – 7 July 2009 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| 121 | Amado Boudou | Independent | 7 July 2009 – 10 December 2011 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| 122 | Hernán Lorenzino | Independent | 10 December 2011 – 20 November 2013 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| 123 | Axel Kicillof | Independent | 20 November 2013 – 9 December 2015 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Ministry of the Treasury and Public Finances (2015–2016) |||||||
| 124 | Alfonso Prat-Gay | Civic Coalition ARI | 10 December 2015 – 31 December 2016 | Mauricio Macri |
| Ministry of the Treasury (2016–2019) |||||||
| 125 | Nicolás Dujovne | Radical Civic Union | 1 January 2017 – 17 August 2019 | Mauricio Macri |
| 126 | Hernán Lacunza | Republican Proposal | 17 August 2019 – 10 December 2019 | Mauricio Macri |
| Ministry of Economy (2019–Present) |||||||
| 127 | Martín Guzmán | Independent | 10 December 2019 – 2 July 2022 | Alberto Fernández |
| 128 | Silvina Batakis | Justicialist Party | 4 July 2022 – 3 August 2022 | Alberto Fernández |
| 129 | Sergio Massa | Renewal Front | 3 August 2022 – 10 December 2023 | Alberto Fernández |
| 130 | Luis Caputo | Republican Proposal/La Libertad Avanza | 10 December 2023 – Present | Javier Milei |