Sergio Massa

Sergio Tomás Massa is an Argentine politician currently serving as the country's Minister of Economy since 3 August 2022. From 2019 to 2022, he served as President of the Chamber of Deputies, while serving as a National Deputy for the Frente de Todos elected in Buenos Aires Province. A former member of the Justicialist Party, in 2013 he founded his own political party, the Renewal Front.

Massa previously served as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from 2008 to 2009 under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. He also served twice as intendente (mayor) of Tigre, and as Executive Director of ANSES, Argentina's decentralized state social insurance agency. On 28 July 2022, Massa was designated as Minister of Economy by President Alberto Fernández. He took office on 3 August of that year.

As the leader of United for a New Alternative, Massa ran for president in 2015, finishing third in the first round of voting with 21%. Eight years later, in 2023, he is running for president for a second time under the Union for the Homeland coalition.

On 29 July 2022, Massa was designated as the country's new Minister of Economy, taking over three previously stand-alone ministries of Economy, Productive Development and Agriculture in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández. Massa's designation came less than a month after Silvina Batakis' appointment, following the resignation of Martín Guzmán. The fusion of the three ministries led the media to dub Massa superministro ("super-minister"), a term that had previously been used to describe economy ministers in other governments such as Nicolás Dujovne and Domingo Cavallo.

Initial market speculations regarding Massa's first measures as minister led to the Argentine peso recovering against the US dollar, with the unofficial exchange rate ("dólar blue") descending to $280 ARS per dollar on 1 August 2022, down from the peak of $338 ARS per dollar on 21 July.