Javier Silva Ruete

Silva Ruete served as Minister of Agriculture in the First Presidency of Fernando Belaúnde Terry (1965 and 1967).^[2] When he was appointed he was the youngest Minister of Agriculture in the history of the country.^[1] At the time he belonged to the Christian Democrat Party (PDC).^[1] He later served as Minister of Economy and Finance in the cabinets of Francisco Morales-Bermúdez (1978-1980), Valentín Paniagua (2000) and Alejandro Toledo (2002).^[4][2] During his years as minister in the Morales-Bermúdez government he implemented neoliberal policies in accord with the International Monetary Fund.^[5] He served as director of the Peruvian Central Reserve Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). He held different posts in FAO, World Bank and Corporación Andina de Fomento. He was also a board member of different private companies.^[2]

In 1984, he founded the political party Solidarity and Democracy (SODE) together with Manuel Moreyra and Aurelio Loret de Mola.^[6] He contested the 1985 election as a SODE candidate on the APRA list, winning a seat in the Senate.^[1] He obtained 116,478 preferential votes.^[7]

He became president of the Central Reserve Bank in 2003 and served until 2004.^[8]

Silva Ruete died of cancer, at the age of 77 on 21 September 2012.^[2]

• Javier Silva Ruete (1 January 2008). Política económica para países emergentes. Taurus. ISBN 978-603-40-0601-0.
• Javier Silva Ruete (1983). La deuda externa del Perú. Fundación Friedrich Ebert.