Jonathan Menkos

Jonathan Kiril Thomas Menkos Zeissig (born 29 June 1975) is a Guatemalan economist, politician, writer, academic and analyst.[1] He has been president of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (ICEFI) since September 2012.[2]

Jonathan Menkos
Menkos in 2023
Member of the Congress of Guatemala
Assuming office
14 January 2024
ConstituencyNational List
Personal details
Born (1975-06-29) 29 June 1975
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Political partySemilla
Alma materUniversidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Universidad de Valparaíso
Websitehttps://jonathanmenkos.org

On March 5, 2019, the Board of Directors of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies announced that Menkos requested a license to be absent from his duties as President of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies from March 1 to August 15, 2019. Hours later, the political party Movimiento Semilla announced that Menkos had been elected as its vice presidential candidate and running mate of ex-attorney general Thelma Aldana,[3][4] however Aldana was disqualified from the presidential race.[5]

References

  1. "Semilla confirma a Jonathan Menkos como vicepresidenciable junto con Thelma Aldana". Publinews (in Spanish). 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  2. "Thelma Aldana ya tendría candidato a vicepresidente". Soy502 (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  3. "Thelma Aldana y Jonathan Menkos son el binomio de Semilla". La Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  4. "El vice de Thelma Aldana y por qué Semilla lo eligió a él". Nómada (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  5. Cuffe, Sandra (15 May 2019). "Guatemala court rules popular anti-corruption crusader ineligible to run for president". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
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