When the formation of Javier Milei's Cabinet was more speculation than confirmed names, weeks before the new President took office, businessman
Guillermo Ferraro
came out to confirm that he was going to be in charge of the
Infrastructure area.
His administration did not last long, just 45 days:
this Thursday he became the first minister ejected from the Government.
It is a mega-ministry that concentrates five key areas, and that aims to encourage the private sector to invest in work for the country "The approach we have is that
the State has to reduce its participation in the economy
to give space to the private sector." , he advanced in an interview about the direction he intended for his management.
Under Ferraro's orbit were the undersecretaries of
Transportation, Public Works and Communications.
The experience of the displaced minister is linked to the development of megaprojects financed with funds from multilateral organizations, according to what he said in said interview.
Its objective was to bring public works to a model like the Chilean one, of private initiative, where they charge a fee to users for the services they offer.
In the interview prior to his inauguration, he mentioned the idea of
charging transporters for the use of the new routes
that will connect the countryside with the road ports.
Ferraro, who
has known Milei for more than 15 years, was key in the campaign
that led to his election as president.
He was in charge of the
National Coordination of the Supervision of La Libertad Avanza
in the general elections and in the second round.
He replaced Fernando Cerimedo, who was responsible in the Primaries.
Guillermo Ferraro (right) leaves a Cabinet meeting at the Csa Rosada.
Milei had announced Ferraro in September
, during an event organized in Parque Norte by Luis Barrionuevo, when the very brief leap from gastronomic to liberalism had been made.
At that event, Milei spoke for just over an hour and announced that
she had it in the pipeline for Infrastructure.
"Welcome to the forces of heaven," she said.
On that occasion, she had also announced Emilio Ocampo in the Central Bank, with the mission of closing it.
Guillermo Ferraro's experience in the public and private sector
Ferraro is a public accountant,
has a degree in Administration, a PhD in Economic Sciences and a Post-graduate degree in Systems Engineering.
Former Professor of Principles of Administration (UBA) and Post-Graduate in “Scientific Methodology”, according to the bio that appears on the page of Ferraro Camacho & Asociados,
the consulting firm that he founded in the 70s.
The CV of the dismissed minister includes steps in both the private and public sectors.
He was Director of Infrastructure and Government
at KPGM between 2010 and 2023, where he led the advice on different projects such as the Aconcagua railway tunnel, the Chihuido Hydroelectric plant, the Ushuaia cargo port and the PPPs for road corridors.
In 2009 he was part of the technical teams of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.
He was also director of Banco de Entre Ríos between 2003 and 2005, and of Banco Bisel between 2003 and 2007.
Previously, he was
Undersecretary of Industry between 2002 and 2003, under the presidency of Eduardo Duhalde,
and Vice President of Nación Servicios and between 2005 and 2007,
during the administration of Néstor Kirchner.
Ferraro
was chief of advisors in the Senate of Antonio Cafiero,
the historic Peronist leader.
In the 1990s he also worked in the Constituent Convention that was in charge of the 1994 constitutional reform, which enabled the re-election of then-president Carlos Menem.