Axel Kicillof

**Axel Kicillof** (Born, September 25, 1971) is an Argentine economist, politician, teacher and researcher who has served as Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires since December 10, 2019. Previously, he served as Minister of Economy of the Argentine Nation between 2013 and 2015 and as a national deputy for the City of Buenos Aires between 2015 and 2019.

In 2011, he was appointed by then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to the position of Secretary of Economic Policy and Development Planning at the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance. He was deputy auditor of YPF until the passage of the Hydrocarbon Sovereignty Law and since June 2012, following the company's takeover by the national government, he served as a class "A" regular director. He also chaired the Planning and Strategic Coordination Committee of the National Hydrocarbon Investment Plan and was a member of the Executive Committee of **PROCREAR**. Since July 2009, he was CEO of Aerolíneas Argentinas and since 2011, deputy general manager. Kicillof speaks English and French.

## Biography

Kicillof is the second of three children born to psychoanalyst Daniel Kicillof and psychologist Nora Barenstein, both Ashkenazi Jews. He has two children, and is married to researcher and PhD in Literature Soledad Quereilhac.

From 1984 to 1989, Kicillof attended the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. From 1990 to 1995, he studied at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He graduated _magna cum laude_, receiving a Degree in Economics with a focus on the public sector. He was the top student in his class of 122. From 1997 to 2005, he pursued graduate studies at UBA, receiving a Doctorate in Economics. His doctoral dissertation, later published as a book, was titled _Génesis y estructura de la Teoría General de Lord Keynes_ (Genesis and Structure of the General Theory of Lord Keynes).

At university, Kicillof was a prominent student leader. He was the head of the student organization _Tontos pero No Tanto_ (TNT, Spanish for _Dummies but Not That Much_) and was also a member of the Kirchnerist youth group La Cámpora, now headed by Máximo Kirchner. As a student leader, he was "acclaimed by students like a rock star." From 1989 to 2001, he was an outspoken critic of neoliberalism in Argentina.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Axel Kicillof
- **image**: Inauguration of Javier Milei 11241 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Kicillof in 2023
- **office**: Governor of the Buenos Aires Province, Governor of Buenos Aires
- **vicegovernor**: Verónica Magario
- **term start**: 10 December 2019
- **predecessor**: María Eugenia Vidal
- **office1**: Argentine Chamber of Deputies, National Deputy
- **term start1**: 10 December 2015
- **term end1**: 10 December 2019
- **constituency1**: City of Buenos Aires
- **office2**: Ministry of Economy (Argentina), Minister of Economy and Public Finances
- **president2**: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- **term start2**: 18 November 2013
- **term end2**: 10 December 2015
- **predecessor2**: Hernán Lorenzino
- **successor2**: Alfonso Prat-Gay
- **birth place**: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- **party**: Justicialist Party (since 2021)
- **otherparty**: Front for Victory (2011–2017)
Citizen's Unity (2017–2019)
Frente de Todos (2019 coalition), Frente de Todos (2019–2023)
Union for the Homeland (2023–present)
- **spouse**: Soledad Quereilhac
- **alma mater**: University of Buenos Aires
- **signature**: Firma de Axel Kicillof.svg