Horacio Rodríguez Larreta

Argentina |  Mayor, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Horacio Rodríguez Larreta became mayor of Buenos Aires in 2015, winning a second term in 2019.

Rodríguez Larreta graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Buenos Aires and went on to obtain a master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School. He started the foundation “Grupo Sophia,” an NGO comprised of young people with the intention to take on public responsibilities.

Rodríguez Larreta started to actively participate in politics with Mauricio Macri, with whom he founded the political party “Compromiso para el Cambio” in 2003. It was renamed “Propuesta Republicana” (PRO) in 2005. When Mauricio Macri was elected as deputy, Rodríguez Larreta became the General Director of the PRO electoral campaign. 

While Mauricio Macri was mayor, Rodríguez Larreta worked alongside him as chief of the cabinet of ministers of the city of Buenos Aires. He took up the important task of coordinating teams, putting a special focus on building closeness with the neighbors of the city, maintaining the efficiency of the administration and its public work, in order to achieve a better quality of life for everyone in the city.

In June 2015, Rodríguez Larreta was elected as the new mayor of the City of Buenos Aires with 53 percent of the votes. He was reelected in 2019 with 55.9 percent of the votes, becoming the first mayor in the history of the city to win the election in the first round. As mayor, one of the values he most strives towards is that of listening to neighbors. This is why he holds weekly meetings in different neighborhoods, where each neighbor can bring proposals, claims and their different points of view of life in the city.

Rodríguez Larreta was an event speaker at the Dialogue.


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