| Juan Carlos Echeverry | |
| Office: | Minister of Finance and Public Credit |
| Term Start: | 7 August 2010 |
| Term End: | 3 September 2012 |
| President: | Juan Manuel Santos |
| Predecessor: | Óscar Iván Zuluaga |
| Successor: | Mauricio Cárdenas |
| Office2: | Director of the National Planning Department |
| Term Start2: | 27 August 2000 |
| Term End2: | 7 August 2002 |
| President2: | Andrés Pastrana |
| Predecessor2: | Mauricio Cárdenas |
| Successor2: | Santiago Montenegro |
| Birth Name: | Juan Carlos Echeverry Garzón |
| Birth Date: | 12 September 1962 |
| Birth Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Nationality: | Colombian |
| Spouse: | Verónica Navas Ospina (2004-present) |
| Children: | Gabriel Echeverry Navas Gregorio Echeverry Navas |
| Alma Mater: | University of the Andes (BA.) New York University (PhD) |
| Profession: | Economist |
| Signature: | Juan Carlos Echeverry Signature.svg |
Juan Carlos Echeverry Garzón (born 12 September 1962) is a Colombian economist and former president of Ecopetrol, an oil and gas company. He served as the 68th Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia from 2010 to 2012. He is the president of Econcept, a financial consulting firm in Bogotá and is an Associate Professor of Economics at University of the Andes. He was also a visiting professor at IE Business School, Madrid in 2013.[1]
He served as Colombia's Minister of Economic Planning from 2000 to 2002 and held the position of Dean of Economics at the University of the Andes from 2002-2006. He was appointed finance minister by Colombia's President-elect Juan Manuel Santos on June 22, 2010.[2]
Echeverry has a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University[3] and a B.A. in Economics from the University of the Andes. Echeverry writes a weekly editorial for CNN en Español.