Omar Quesada

Omar Quesada
Omar Quesada Martínez
Institutional Secretary General of the Peruvian Aprista Party
In office March 5, 2010 – July 8, 2017
President	Alan García
Deputy	Javier Morán
Preceded by	Mauricio Mulder
Succeeded by	Elías Rodríguez
Director of the Informal Property Formalization Agency Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation
In office 2007 – April 24, 2010
President	Alan García
Minister	Enrique Cornejo Juan Sarmiento Soto
Succeeded by	David Alfonso Ramos López (Acting as Deputy Minister of Housing and Urbanism)
1st Governor of Ayacucho
In office January 1, 2003 – December 31, 2006
Lieutenant	José Antonio Urquizo
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Ernesto Molina Chávez
Mayor of Huanta
In office 1 January 1993 – 31 December 1995
Preceded by	Jorge Gonzales Alonso Rey Sánchez
Succeeded by	Milton Córdova La Torre
Personal details
Born	Werner Omar Quesada Martínez (1965-09-24) 24 September 1965 (age 59) Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru
Nationality	Peruvian
Political party	Peruvian Aprista Party
Alma mater	Universidad de San Martín de Porres (LLB)

Werner Omar Quesada Martínez (born 24 September 1965) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. A ranking member of the Peruvian Aprista Party,^[1] he served as the party's Institutional Secretary General from March 2010 to July 2017.

His career has been marked by controversy. Raised in the Ayacucho Region, he served as a regional party leader throughout his youth, becoming the first democratically elected governor of Ayacucho, from 2003 to 2006. In the second presidency of Alan García, he was appointed as Director of the Informal Property Formalization Agency (COFOPRI), an agency dependent of the Ministry of Housing.Upon the revelation of irregular property selling conceded by the agency, he was forced to tender his resignation in April 2010.

Early life and education

Born in the northern city of Trujillo, La Libertad, Quesada was raised in Huanta, Ayacucho. From a very young age, he registered himself in the Peruvian Aprista Party. After finishing his high school education at María Auxiliadora Grand School Unity in 1981, he travelled to Lima in order enroll in the Universidad de San Martín de Porres to study law. He was able to finish his law degree in 1996.^[2]

Simultaneously with his college education, Quesada served in a variety of positions within the Peruvian Aprista Party's Regional Committee. In 1985, he rose to the position of Deputy Regional Secretary General of the party in Ayacucho, and Provincial Secretary General for Huanta from 1992 to 1993.^[2]

References

1. "Omar Quesada: "APRA hará acto de contrición tras elecciones"". Generaccion (in Spanish). 26 February 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
2. "Werner Omar Quezada Martinez". Peru: Infogob. Retrieved 6 June 2020.