Marcos Peña

Marcos Peña was born in March 15, 1977, in Buenos Aires. Peña is the son of Félix Peña, a foreign trade specialist, and Clara Braun, an academic. He is the grandson of the Argentine physiologist, Eduardo Braun-Menéndez. He attended his first years of elementary school at Wayside Elementary School in Potomac, Maryland, United States, as his parents lived abroad. He returned to Argentina and completed high school in Buenos Aires.[1] He graduated with a degree in political sciences from the Torcuato di Tella University.

While studying political science, Peña volunteered in the presidential campaign of José Octavio Bordón (FREPASO) in 1995. He then worked ad honorem with his father in the Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade of the Carlos Menem government, where he met Gabriela Michetti.

He was elected a Legislator for the Buenos Aires City in 2003, then by the Commitment to Change.6 He helped the gestation of Commitment to Change, which would later be Republican Proposal, popularly known as PRO, a new party that would initially propel Mauricio Macri to The City Government Headquarters and topped the list of legislators in 2005.

In 2005, Macri appointed Marcos Peña as the first President of Youth PRO.

When Mauricio Macri became mayor of Buenos Aires in 2007, Peña was designated General Secretary of the City of Buenos Aires. From there he was in charge of the communication area of the city. In November 2015, Macri designated him as Chief of Cabinet of Ministers of the Argentine Nation. He took office on December 10, 2015 in the Bicentennial Museum in the Casa Rosada.

Peña was campaign manager for Macri's 2015 Presidential campaign. Macri became president in 2015 and appointed Peña Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, after the approval of the Senate.[1]

In 2002, he married journalist Luciana Mantero, with whom he has two children. Peña was also a fellow of the CIPPEC organization and the Poder Ciudadano Foundation.

In May 2013 he presented the book “We are: An open invitation.” A series of stories compiled by him and Alejandro Rozitchner, which brings together testimonies of leaders, officials and militants of the PRO.