Fernando Zavala

Zavala studied economics at the University of the Pacific and obtained a Masters in Business Administration degree from the University of Piura. He also studied for an MBA at the University of Birmingham in England. He was assistant manager of Samtronics Peru. He was also Chief Financial Officer of Apoyo S.A. (Now Ipsos Perú S.A.), a consultant and pollster.

In 1995 he became the Chief Executive Officer of Peru's National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI), a position he held until 2000. He was Peru's Minister of Economy and Finance under President Alejandro Toledo and Prime Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski from 2005 to 2006.

In 2006 he left the government and began working at Backus and Johnston as Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Relations. After three years in office, he was named the president of National Brewery – SABMiller Panamá. In November 2013 he returned to Peru as President of Backus and Johnston.

In July 2016, he was appointed Prime Minister of Peru by the President of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, having held the office until 17 September 2017, after his cabinet was successfully censored by a vote of no confidence two days earlier.[1]

Zavala has been a member of the Boards of Directors of Interbank, Alicorp, inmobiliaria IDE, Cerveceria San Juan, Banco Falabella, and Enersur.