Jorge Ferraresi

Jorge Horacio Ferraresi (born 26 August 1961) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician and engineer who was intendente (mayor) of Avellaneda, a partido in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, from 2009 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.

Jorge Ferraresi
Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 November 2020
President	Alberto Fernández
Preceded by	María Eugenia Bielsa
Mayor of Avellaneda
In office 3 August 2009 – 11 November 2020
Preceded by	Baldomero Álvarez de Olivera
Succeeded by	Alejandro Chornobroff
Personal details
Born	26 August 1961 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political party	Justicialist Party
Other political affiliations	Front for Victory (2003–2017) Citizen's Unity (2017–2019) Frente de Todos (since 2019)
Alma mater	National Technological University

Early life and education

Jorge Horacio Ferraresi was born on 26 August 1961 in Buenos Aires, the son of Alfredo Ferraresi, a farmaceutical union leader and co-founder of the CGTA.[1][2][3] He studied construction engineering at the National Technological University (UTN), graduating in 1988, and then went on to attain a labor engineering degree from the same university in 1990.[4]

Political career

Ferraresi's career started as the security chief at Garrahan Hospital, in Buenos Aires, where he worked until 1991.[4] From there he went on to serve as Secretary of Public Works and Services at the municipality of Avellaneda from 1991 to 2001 and again from 2003 to 2009; this latter term under intendente Baldomero Álvarez de Olivera.[4]

In 2007, he ran for the Avellaneda municipal council as the first candidate in the Front for Victory list, and was elected. Upon Álvarez de Olivera's resignation to assume a post in the provincial cabinet of Daniel Scioli, Ferraresi became interim mayor of Avellaneda in 2009.[5] He was formally elected to the post in 2011, and was re-elected by wide margins in 2015 and 2019.[5] His administration in the municipality was characterized by the prominence of public works, especially in the affordable housing sector.[6]

Since 2016 he has served as Vice president of Patria institute, a think tank founded by former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; Ferraresi is considered to be a close associate of Fernández de Kirchner.[5][6][7]

In 2020, following the resignation of María Eugenia Bielsa as Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat, Ferraresi was touted as a potential successor and eventually confirmed to the post on 11 November 2020.[4][5][6][8][9] He was succeeded in the municipality by his chief of staff, Alejandro Chornobroff.[10]

Personal life

Ferraresi is married to Magdalena Sierra, a fellow Justicialist Party politician who has been a National Deputy representing Buenos Aires Province since 2017.[11] Ferraresi has three children.

References

1. "Controversia en Olavarría entre científicos y contratistas. Milenarias cavernas de Sierras Bayas en peligro de destrucción". La Nación (in Spanish). 1 February 2001. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
2. "Jorge Ferraresi". lanoticia1.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 November 2020.
3. "Falleció Alfredo Ferraresi, histórico sindicalista farmacéutico". Télam (in Spanish). 2 March 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
4. "Quién es Jorge Ferraresi, el reemplazante de María Eugenia Bielsa". Página/12 (in Spanish). 11 November 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
5. "Quién es Jorge Ferraresi, el intendente que juró por Cristina y dice que "los líderes no siempre gobiernan"". Clarín (in Spanish). 11 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
6. Fuertes, Gimena (11 November 2020). "Cómo se gestó la llegada de Ferraresi al Gabinete nacional". Tiempo Argentino (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2020.
7. Pepe, Gabriela (11 November 2020). "Mil flores para Ferraresi: qué dice la carta de recomendación de La Jefa". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 November 2020.
8. "Ferraresi se dio por asumido como ministro y se reúne con Cafiero". La Política Online (in Spanish). 12 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
9. Jastreblansky, Maia (12 November 2020). "Hábitat: sin jurar aún, Jorge Ferraresi ya se pone en funciones y diagrama un cambio de prioridades". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2020.
10. Suárez, María Eugenia (12 November 2020). "Alejo Chornobroff reemplazará a Ferraresi en la intendencia de Avellaneda". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2020.
11. "Quién es Jorge Ferraresi, el intendente que reemplazará a Bielsa". El Canciller (in Spanish). 11 November 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.

External links

• Official website of the Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat (in Spanish)