Ministry of Environment (Peru)

The logo of the Ministry of Environment of Peru

The Ministry of Environment (Spanish: Ministerio del Ambiente, MINAM) of Peru is the government ministry responsible for the national policy regarding environmental matters. It was created on May 13, 2008. Its function is to oversee the environmental sector of Peru, with the authority to design, establish, and execute government policies concerning the environment. It has two subdivisions:

• Strategic Development of Natural Resources
• Environmental Management

It also has an Advisory Commission. The inaugural holder was Antonio Brack Egg. As of 10 December 2022^[update], the minister is Albina Ruiz.

List of Ministers of the Enviornment 2008-Present

No.	Picture	Minister of the Environment	Took office	Left office	President
1.		Antonio Brack Egg	16 May 2008	28 July 2011	Alan García
2.		Ricardo Giesecke	28 July 2011[1]	10 December 2011	Ollanta Humala
3.		Manuel Pulgar-Vidal	10 December 2011	28 July 2016	Ollanta Humala
4.		Elsa Galarza	28 July 2016	2 April 2018	Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
5.		Fabioloa Muñoz	2 April 2018	11 March 2019	Martin Vizcarra Cornejo
6.		Lucía Ruiz	11 March 2019	30 September 2019	Martin Vizcarra Cornejo
7.		Fabioloa Muñoz	3 October 2019	15 July 2020	Martin Vizcarra Cornejo
8.		Kirla Echegaray	15 July 2020	12 November 2020	Martin Vizcarra Cornejo
9.		Lizzet Rojas	12 November 2020	18 November 2020	Manuel Merino
10.		Gabriel Quijandría	18 November 2020	28 July 2021	Francisco Sagasti
11.		Rubén Ramírez Mateo	29 July 2021	1 February 2022	Pedro Castillo
12.		Wilber Supo	1 February 2022	8 February 2022	Pedro Castillo
13.		Modesto Montoya	8 February 2022	24 August 2022	Pedro Castillo
14.		Wilbert Rozas	24 August 2022	7 December 2022	Pedro Castillo
15.		Albina Ruiz	10 December 2022[2]	13 February 2024[3]	Dina Boluarte
16.		Juan Carlos Castro Vargas	13 February 2024[4]

References

1. "El presidente Ollanta Humala tomó juramento a sus 18 ministros". El Comercio. 28 July 2011. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012.
2. PERÚ, Empresa Peruana de Servicios Editoriales S. A. EDITORA. "Albina Ruiz Ríos jura como nueva ministra del Ambiente". andina.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-12-21.
3. "Conoce a Juan Carlos Castro Vargas, el nuevo ministro del Ambiente". Actualidad Ambiental (in Spanish). 13 February 2024.
4. "Conoce a Juan Carlos Castro Vargas, el nuevo ministro del Ambiente". Actualidad Ambiental (in Spanish). 13 February 2024.

See also

• Climate of Peru
• Council of Ministers of Peru