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June 3, 2024

Javier Escobal is appointed member of the Fiscal Council

Our senior researcher Javier Escobal has been appointed as a member of the Fiscal Council, for a four-year term. Previously, he was a member of this group between December 2015 and March 2022.

According to Supreme Resolution No. 021-2024-EF, his appointment replaces economist and former Minister of Economy Carlos Oliva.

The Fiscal Council is an autonomous and technical commission of the public sector, which strengthens the transparency and institutionality of public finances, through the analysis and monitoring of fiscal policies, their consistency with the economic cycle and fiscal sustainability. Its members must be persons of recognized moral solvency, with broad professional experience in macroeconomic and/or fiscal or related matters, in the public or private sector or both.