Graciela Fernández-Baca

Hilda Graciela Fernández-Baca Calderón (1933–2020) was a Peruvian economist and politician who held a number of important positions in her country's public administrations, heading the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics from 1980 to 1987. Internationally, she was president of the Council for UNESCO's Information for All Programme and was a member of the board of auditors of the Organization of American States. From 1995 to 2000, she was a Member of the Peruvian Congress representing the Union for Peru.

Biography Born in Cuzco on 15 March 1933, Graciela Fernández-Baca Calderón was the daughter of Jenaro Fernández-Baca Cosio and his wife Marie Luisa née Calderón, both schoolteachers. She was one of the family's ten children. She married the agricultural engineer Américo Valdez Marin with whom she had four children. Fernández-Baca studied economics at the National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco. She went on to take post-graduate courses in economics and statistics at the Chapingo Autonomous University Mexico and in economic and financial statistics at the University of Chile .