| Alejandro Gaviria Uribe | |
| Office: | Minister of National Education |
| Term Start: | 7 August 2022 |
| Term End: | 27 February 2023 |
| President: | Gustavo Petro |
| Predecessor: | María Victoria Angulo |
| Successor: | Aurora Vergara |
| Office1: | Rector of the University of Los Andes |
| Term Start1: | 22 May 2019 |
| Term End1: | 27 August 2021 |
| Predecessor1: | Pablo Navas Sanz |
| Successor1: | Raquel Bernal Salazar |
| Office2: | Minister of Health and Social Protection |
| President2: | Juan Manuel Santos |
| Term Start2: | 3 September 2012 |
| Term End2: | 7 August 2018 |
| Predecessor2: | Beatriz Londoño Soto |
| Successor2: | Fernando Ruiz Gomez |
| Office3: | Deputy Director of the National Planning Department |
| President3: | Álvaro Uribe |
| Term Start3: | 7 August 2002 |
| Term End3: | 6 February 2004 |
| Predecessor3: | Tomás González Estrada |
| Successor3: | José Leibovich Goldenberg |
| Birth Name: | Alejandro Gaviria Uribe |
| Birth Date: | 25 June 1965 |
| Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
| Spouse: | Carolina Soto Losada |
Alejandro Gaviria Uribe (born 25 June 1965) is a Colombian economist and engineer, serving as the Minister of National Education of Colombia since 7 August 2022, replacing María Victoria Angulo.[1] He also served as Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia from 2012 to 2018. He is the former Rector of the University of Los Andes (Colombia), where he served from 2019 to August 2021. He was Dean of the School of Economics at University of los Andes in 2006, until his appointment as Minister in 2012. Prior to his academic career, Gaviria served as Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia, as well as Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Higher Education and Development (Fedesarrollo), a private non-profit policy research centre, and as a Researcher at the Inter-American Development Bank. A published author of several books and scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, in 2019 he was appointed Rector of University of the Andes for a four-year period.[2]
On 30 August 2012 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Gaviria as Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia.[3] Gaviria was sworn in on 3 September 2012 succeeding Beatriz Londoño Soto. On 7 August 2018, he was succeeded by the medical doctor and surgeon Juan Pablo Uribe Restrepo under the government of president Iván Duque Márquez.
Gaviria was born in 1966 in Santiago, Chile, to Juan Felipe Gaviria Gutiérrez and Cecilia Uribe Flórez.[4] He is married to Carolina Soto Losada, former High Presidential Counsellor for Government, Private Sector and Competitiveness of Colombia. He has two children, Mariana Gaviria and Tomas Gaviria. On 6 September 2017, it was announced he was being treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[5] Gaviria identifies as an atheist.[6]