Mauricio Pozo Crespo

Mauricio Pozo Crespo (born January 18, 1959)

Background Pozo graduated from high school in Caracas, Venezuela. He earned a BA in economics at Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) in 1985. In the same year he graduated magna cum laude at the Economics Institute in the University of Colorado. He continued his postgraduate studies at Notre Dame, Indiana, USA where he obtained a master's degree in economics in 1987.

He pursued various courses in finance and economics in USA and Europe. In 2010 he obtained a diploma from the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Ministerial post Mauricio Pozo was appointed Minister of Economy and Finance of Ecuador in January 2003, when Lucio Gutiérrez became president. who advocated dollarization of the national currency. He maintained a policy of using much of the country's oil revenues to repay debt and sought new loans from the IMF. He resigned his post on 1 June 2004, for reasons not clarified at the time. The austerity policies adopted by Pozo and Gutierrez were criticized by representatives of Indigenous people for their impact on poverty, but government supporters linked these policies to a 3.5% growth rate in 2003 and an inflation rate below 3%.