Enrique Cornejo


Enrique Javier Cornejo Ramirez is the former Peruvian Minister of Transportation and Communications that was under President Alan García from September 2010 to July 2011. Prior to that, he was the Minister of Housing and Construction.

Biography

Enrique Cornejo graduated from the University of Lima. He has taught at universities in Ecuador and Bolivia. He also taught at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. From August 2006 to December 2007, he was the CEO of the National Bank of Peru. In 2007, he was appointed as the Peruvian Minister of Housing and Construction. In September 2010, he became the Minister of Transportation and Communication.
On 17 April 2019, the Peruvian judiciary ordered preliminary detention against him and other investigators, for having received alleged bribes from the Odebrecht company. Subsequently, the former Minister of Transport was detained by the police as he was leaving a media outlet building.