José Luis Espert
José Luis Espert (born 21 November 1961) is an Argentine economist and politician. He is known to be one of the strongest supporters of economic liberalism in Argentina. Since the 2021 Argentine legislative election, he has been a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province for the Avanza Libertad coalition. Espert supports free trade, proposes to deepen the commercial opening with the world, and attacks Mercosur for what he describes as its limitations to this. He is against the "corporations that devour the country"; he proposes that the country "change the system for another". With his ideology, he seeks to position himself as the only representative of liberalism. Espert considers himself a "common citizen", criticizes Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernandez, and claims to be the sole opposition figure to Kirchnerism. Education and career Espert was born in Pergamino to a Catalan father and an Argentine mother. His father, who died in 2018, was a prominent businessman linked to the rural sector. Espert studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), later earning a master's degree in economics at the University of CEMA (UCEMA), and a master's in Statistics at the National University of Tucumán. He started working at the