About
Santiago Peña Palacios is the President of the Republic of Paraguay, in office since August 2023. He is an economist who earned his degree from the Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción and holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Columbia University in New York. He worked at the Central Bank of Paraguay and at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., and later served as Paraguay’s Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2017. Peña has also been a university professor and visiting lecturer at George Washington University. His political career within the National Republican Association (Colorado Party) began in 2017, and he won the party’s presidential primary in 2022 before being elected president in 2023.