Mauricio Macri (1959) is an Argentine engineer, politician and sports executive, former President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019.

Born in Tandil, in the province of Buenos Aires, Macri has Italian origins on his father's side, who came from a wealthy family of landowners from San Giorgio Morgeto, a few kilometers from Polistena, Calabria.

After graduating in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University of Argentina, he later became interested in neoliberalism by joining the now-defunct Union of the Democratic Center and a think tank led by Minister Alvaro Alsogaray. His university education did not end at the Catholic University of Argentina, but continued at Columbia Business School in New York, then at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at the Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina (CEMA) in Buenos Aires.

In 1950, his father, a builder, founded his small company specializing in subcontracting, from which the Socma group (Sociedad Macri) derived, a pillar for the entire Argentine construction field, and on that occasion Mauricio Macri joined the family business. However, during his career within his father's industries, the first divergent opinions began to surface, influenced by his university experience. In fact, Macri was keen to orient the company towards a more liberal approach, while his father remained anchored in the perspective of the state contracts that made the family's fortune until the fall of the military junta regime. In 1993, after years spent holding managerial roles, he fell out with his father during the negotiations for the renewal of the partnership with FIAT. In the following year, Socma (Sociedad Macrì) was accused of smuggling mechanical parts into Uruguay and although the charges were dropped, this aspect marked the definitive detachment of Mauricio Macri from the family.

In the 1990s, Macri was the victim of a gruesome kidnapping by corrupt policemen, which led him to pursue a political career. In 2007, he was elected mayor of Buenos Aires with the Republican Proposal coalition, which he led. Macri's political formation was openly at odds with then-President Nestor Kirchner, whom in the past had not failed to come down on the Macri family actions. Nevertheless, given his success in his work as mayor, Macri was reconfirmed in 2011 as mayor of Buenos Aires, a victory that helped him a lot in the 2015 presidential race, when Macri won the elections thus becoming President of Argentina and serving until 2019, setting out to restore the rules of the economic and financial market and not increasing taxes.