Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Sergia Elena de Séliman | |
Birth Name: | Sergia Elena Mejía de Peña |
Office: | Member of the Monetary Board of the Dominican Republic |
President: | Héctor Valdez Albizu |
Term Start: | 19 November 2020 |
Constituency Mp2: | the Dominican Republic |
Parliament2: | Central American |
Term Start2: | 16 August 2016 |
Term End2: | 10 November 2020 |
Lieutenant2: | Carlos Juan Séliman |
Birth Date: | 1 October 1963 |
Birth Place: | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Party: | Social Christian Reformist Party |
Spouse: | Juan Luis Séliman Haza |
Children: | 3, including Carlos Juan Séliman (b. 1989) |
Residence: | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Blank1: | Ethnicity |
Data1: | White Dominican |
Blank2: | Net worth |
Sergia Elena de Séliman (née Mejía de Peña; born 1 October 1963) is a politician from the Dominican Republic. Since 19 November 2020 Séliman is a member of the Monetary Board of the Dominican Republic, the entity that oversees the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic and the Superintendency of Banks.[1]
Séliman was elected in 2016 as a Dominican Republic deputy to the Central American Parliament, while her son Carlos Juan Séliman was her runningmate as vice-deputy.[2] Previously she ran unsuccessfully to deputy for the National District in 2010 and vice-mayor of Santo Domingo in 2006.[3] She also ran in the 2020 Dominican presidential elections as the runningmate of former President and Social Christian Reformist Party’s presidential candidate Leonel Fernández.[4]
On November 16, 2020, President Luis Abinader appointed her as a member of the Monetary Board.[5]