Santiago Cafiero


Santiago Andrés Cafiero is an Argentine political scientist and politician, currently serving as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers under Alberto Fernández's administration, since 2019.

Early life and education

Santiago Andrés Cafiero was born on 30 August 1979 in San Isidro, in Buenos Aires Province, son of Juan Pablo Cafiero, who was Minister of Social Development during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa in 2001, and María Luisa Bianchi. Cafiero's grandfather Antonio Cafiero held many important political posts, including the governorship of Buenos Aires, and also briefly served as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers under Eduardo Camaño.
He began his political activism in the :es:Juventud Peronista|Peronist Youth in San Isidro. Cafiero studied Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires and then went on to receive a Master's Degree on public policy from Torcuato di Tella University.

Political career

Cafiero was elected president of the local Justicialist Party in his native San Isidro in 2008, and was the party's mayoral candidate in 2011 and 2015. From 2009 to 2017, he was a councillor in San Isidro's municipal council.
During the governorship of Daniel Scioli in Buenos Aires, Cafiero worked as a consultant in the Undersecretariat of Municipal Affairs, and then went on to serve as the Province's Director of Industry from 2008 to 2010, Undersecretary of Industry, Commerce and Mining from 2010 to 2011, Vice-minister of Social Development and Undersecretary of Social Policies from 2011 to 2014, and Undersecretary of Modernization from 2014 to 2015.
Cafiero was Florencio Randazzo's campaign chief in Randazzo's 2017 senatorial run.
Ahead of the 2019 general election, Alberto Fernández, the Justicialist Party's presidential candidate, appointed Cafiero as his campaign chief and formed the Grupo Callao think tank alongside him.
On 29 October 2019, Fernández won the presidential election in the first round with 48.2% of the vote. On 6 December 2019, in the official announcement of his incoming cabinet's composition, President-elect Fernández named Cafiero as his chief of cabinet, a post he assumed on 10 December 2019.

Personal life

Cafiero is married and has three sons. He co-founded the Punto de Encuentro publishing house in 2015.