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Jose Luis Chicoma
José Luis Chicoma Lúcar (born 31 March, 1976,) is a Peruvian expert on sustainable development and food systems. He served as Peru’s Minister of Production from November, 2020, to July 28, 2021, under President Francisco Sagasti administration. Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).
Biography
Chicoma holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from University of the Pacific, in Lima. He was advisor to the Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism from 2006 to 2009. In 2009, he was appointed Director of Exports for Promperu [1], the government agency aimed at promoting Peruvian exports abroad. On August 7, 2009, he was appointed Vice Minister of Micro and Small Enterprises and Industries by President Alan Garcia. He held the position under the tenures of Ministers of Production Mercedes Aráoz and Nicanor Gonzáles. He resigned from the Vice Ministry in November, 2010. During his tenure as Minister of Production, from November, 2020 to July, 2021, Chicoma spearheaded the modernization of Peru’s food and wholesale markets; championed new regulations aimed at promoting government food procurement from small-scale fisheries and fish farmers; secured the approval of sustainability regulatory frameworks for mahi-mahi fisheries and the development of green industrial parks, among other acheivments. Chicoma has taught at several institutions of higher learning in Peru, including the University of the Pacific, Pontificial Catholic University of Peru and ESAN University. In 2010, Semana Económica weekly named him one of the 25 people under age 45 likely to change the Peruvian economy. From 2012 to 2020, he was the Executive Director of Ethos Public Policy Lab, a think tank based in Mexico City. In 2017 he was named a World Fellow in the Yale Greenberg World Fellows Program [2]. In 2018 he was named Draper-Hills Summer Fellow in Stanford University [3].