Santo Domingo.– The renowned economist and former public official Ramón Pérez Minaya passed away this Sunday, according to friends and colleagues in the economic field. So far, details about the causes of his death have not been revealed.
The news was announced by economist and lawyer José Alfredo Guerrero, who expressed his sorrow through his account on the social network X, highlighting the intelligence, dynamism, and professional capacity of Pérez Minaya.
“Ramón Pérez Minaya, an intelligent, dynamic, and capable economist, who lived as his initials indicate and was called by his colleagues, RPM, his last minute arrived. Goodbye great mentor and friend of generations!”, wrote Guerrero.
Businessman and diplomat Hugo Guiliani Cury also joined the expressions of mourning, highlighting the critical and independent thinking of the deceased economist:
“Ramón was an economist with his own way of thinking who explained and wrote in a simple way about how we could overcome our economic and social backwardness. His books are a sample of this,” said Guiliani Cury.
Ramón Pérez Minaya was a prominent figure in the economy, state planning, and higher education of the Dominican Republic. His career was characterized by a solid technical training and a deep commitment to the modernization of public institutions.
He held important positions in the State, including:
- Technical Deputy Manager of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic.
- Technical Undersecretary of the Presidency and director of the National Planning Office, from where he promoted policies to strengthen the efficiency and institutional capacity of the Government.
In the academic and international cooperation field, Pérez Minaya was executive director and ex officio secretary of the Technical Assistance Center of the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (CEAT-INTEC), as well as executive director of the University Modernization Project, financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (
IDB) during the 1980s.
Throughout his life, he significantly contributed to the formulation of national development strategies, the professionalization of public management, and the promotion of Dominican economic thought from a technical and humanistic perspective.
His legacy, both in public policies and in academia, leaves a deep mark on the history of contemporary economic thought in the country.
