Chief Advisor to the MayorCity of Buenos Aires
Juan Maquieyra (Argentina) is Chief Advisor to the Mayor since March 2021.
Previously, he was the President of the Housing Institute of the City of Buenos Aires, responsible for ensuring access to adequate affordable housing for all citizens. In this role, Maquieyra has made the upgrading of slums a priority and is doing it with an innovative bottom-up approach. Before this, he was the Social Cabinet Coordinator of the City of Buenos Aires. He also worked for the Ministry of Education at the Buenos Aires City Government, as the Chief Negotiator of the teachers’ collective bargaining agreements.