José Antonio Urquizo | |
Office: | Minister of Defense |
President: | Ollanta Humala |
Primeminister: | Óscar Valdés |
Term Start: | May 14, 2012 |
Term End: | July 23, 2012 |
Predecessor: | Luis Alberto Otárola |
Successor: | Pedro Cateriano |
Office1: | Minister of Production |
President1: | Ollanta Humala |
Primeminister1: | Óscar Valdés |
Term Start1: | December 11, 2011 |
Term End1: | May 14, 2012 |
Predecessor1: | Kurt Burneo |
Successor1: | Gladys Triveño |
Office2: | Member of Congress |
Constituency2: | Ayacucho |
Term Start2: | July 26, 2006 |
Term End2: | July 26, 2016 |
Order3: | 1st Lieutenant Governor of Ayacucho |
Governor3: | Omar Quesada |
Term Start3: | January 1, 2003 |
Term End3: | July 26, 2006 |
Predecessor3: | Office created |
Successor3: | Rubén Quispe Bedriñana |
Birth Name: | José Antonio Urquizo Maggia |
Birth Date: | 13 February 1967 |
Birth Place: | Ayacucho, Ayacucho, Peru |
Nationality: | Peruvian |
Party: | Ayacucho Wins (2017-present) |
Otherparty: | Peruvian Nationalist Party (2006-2016) Peruvian Aprista Party (2003-2006) |
Alma Mater: | Federico Villarreal National University (LLB) |
José Antonio Urquizo Maggia (born February 13, 1967) is a Peruvian politician (PNP). He served as a Congressman representing Ayacucho from 2006 to 2016.
From 1984 to 1989, José Antonio Urquizo studied cooperativism and university teaching at the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal (UNFV) in Lima, which he concluded with a master's degree. Since 1991, he has been a lecturer at his alma mater. From 1995 to 1995, he led a higher technological institute in Ayacucho. From 1999 to 2000, he took a specialization course in administration at the UNFV.
In the 2002 regional elections, Urquizo was elected vice governor of the Ayacucho Region, for a four-year term, under the social-democratic Peruvian Aprista Party.
In the 2006 elections, he was elected to the Congress to represent his home region, on the joint Peruvian Nationalist Party-Union for Peru list. After the split of the alliance, he sat on the Nationalist bench. In the 2011 elections, he was re-elected on the Peru Wins list. In December 2011, after Salomón Lerner resigned as Prime Minister of Peru, Ollanta Humala appointed him as Minister of Production. Afterwards in 2012 he briefly served as Minister of Defense after the resignation of Luis Alberto Otárola and was replaced by Pedro Cateriano in July 2012.
In the 2018 regional elections, he ran for Governor of Ayacucho, but lost, placing third.