Silvia Hernández Sánchez
Silvia Vanessa Hernández Sánchez (born November 21, 1976 ) is a Costa Rican economist and politician .
Life
Hernández completed part of her school time in the United States , later she studied finance in Mexico at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and economics at the Universidad Regiomontana . By 2002 she graduated from the Universidad Latina de Costa Rica , followed by a study at the Erasmus University Rotterdam until 2005 .
From January 2005, Hernández worked at the Instituto Nacional de la Mujer , from May 2006 she worked for the Ministry of Economic Affairs. After Laura Chinchilla was elected president in 2010, she moved to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications, and in 2011 she went to the Ministry of Communications as office manager. In March 2012, until the end of Chinchilla's tenure, she succeeded Melania Núñez Vargas as Deputy Minister of the Economy. She then worked for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean , before teaching as a professor at the private LEAD University from 2016 .
In September 2017 she was nominated as a candidate for the 2018 parliamentary election. In the election she achieved a majority of the seats in the legislative assembly of Costa Rica with the Partido Liberación Nacional . On May 1, 2019, she was elected parliamentary group leader of her party to succeed Carlos Ricardo Benavides Jiménez, who had risen to become President of Parliament .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hernández Sánchez, Silvia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hernández Sánchez, Silvia Vanessa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Costa Rican economist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1976 |