Jonathan Menkos

Jonathan Menkos
Jonathan Menkos
	Official portrait as member of Congress, 2024
Minister of Public Finance
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 19 January 2024
President	Bernardo Arévalo
Preceded by	Edwin Oswaldo Martínez Cameros
Member of the Congress of Guatemala
	In office; 14 January 2024 – 19 January 2024
Succeeded by	Olga Isabel Villalta Pereira
Constituency	National List
Personal details
Born	29 June 1975 (age 49); Guatemala City, Guatemala
Political party	Semilla
Alma mater	Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala; Universidad de Valparaíso
Website	https://jonathanmenkos.org

Jonathan Kiril Thomas Menkos Zeissig (born 29 June 1975) is a Guatemalan economist, politician, writer, academic and analyst serving as Guatemala's Minister of Public Finance since January 19, 2024.^[1]^[2] He previously served as president of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (ICEFI) starting September 2012.^[3]^[4]

On March 5, 2019, the Board of Directors of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies announced that Menkos requested a license to be absent from his duties as President of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies from March 1 to August 15, 2019. Hours later, the political party Movimiento Semilla announced that Menkos had been elected as its vice presidential candidate and running mate of ex-attorney general Thelma Aldana,^[5]^[6] however Aldana was disqualified from the presidential race.^[7]

References

^ "Arévalo juramenta a Jonathan Menkos como Ministro de Finanzas" (in Spanish). 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
^ "Revelan nombres de algunas personas que integrarán el Gabinete de Bernardo Arévalo" (in Spanish). 2023-12-20. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
^ "Semilla confirma a Jonathan Menkos como vicepresidenciable junto con Thelma Aldana". Publinews (in Spanish). 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
^ "Thelma Aldana ya tendría candidato a vicepresidente". Soy502 (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
^ "Thelma Aldana y Jonathan Menkos son el binomio de Semilla". La Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
^ "El vice de Thelma Aldana y por qué Semilla lo eligió a él". Nómada (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
^ Cuffe, Sandra (15 May 2019). "Guatemala court rules popular anti-corruption crusader ineligible to run for president". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 May 2019.

Party political offices
New political party	Semilla Movement nominee for Vice President of Guatemala 2019	Succeeded by Karin Herrera

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[1] "Arévalo juramenta a Jonathan Menkos como Ministro de Finanzas" (in Spanish). 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-01-20.

[2] "Revelan nombres de algunas personas que integrarán el Gabinete de Bernardo Arévalo" (in Spanish). 2023-12-20. Retrieved 2023-12-21.

[3] "Semilla confirma a Jonathan Menkos como vicepresidenciable junto con Thelma Aldana". Publinews (in Spanish). 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.

[4] "Thelma Aldana ya tendría candidato a vicepresidente". Soy502 (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.

[5] "Thelma Aldana y Jonathan Menkos son el binomio de Semilla". La Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.

[6] "El vice de Thelma Aldana y por qué Semilla lo eligió a él". Nómada (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.

[:0-7] Cuffe, Sandra (15 May 2019). "Guatemala court rules popular anti-corruption crusader ineligible to run for president". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 May 2019.

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Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	Germany