Sergio Tomás Massa (born 28 April 1972) is an Argentine politician currently serving as the country's Minister of Economy since 3 August 2022. From 2019 to 2022, he served as President of the Chamber of Deputies, while serving as a National Deputy for the Frente de Todos elected in Buenos Aires Province. A former member of the Justicialist Party, in 2013 he founded his own political party, the Renewal Front. Massa previously served as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from 2008 to 2009 under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. He also served twice as intendente (mayor) of Tigre, and as Executive Director of ANSES, Argentina's decentralized state social insurance agency. As the leader of United for a New Alternative, Massa ran for President in 2015, finishing third in the first round of voting with 21%. On 28 July 2022, Massa was designated as Minister of Economy by President Alberto Fernández. He took office on 3 August 2022. Early life Massa was born in western Buenos Aires suburb of San Martín in 1972, to Italian parents from Niscemi, Sicily, and raised in neighboring San Andrés. Attending the School of St. Augustine through grade and secondary school, he enrolled at the University of Belgrano, a private university in the upscale Buenos Aires borough of the same name. Leaving school before completing his law degree studies, he married Malena Galmarini, whose father, Fernando Galmarini, was at the time Secretary of Sports for President Carlos Menem. He did not finish his law degree studies until 2013, during the campaign of 2013 legislative election. Political career Early career He became affiliated to the conservative UCeDé in 1989 as an aide to Alejandro Keck, councilman for the San Martín partido (which includes San Andrés). Massa joined the ruling Justicialist Party in 1995, when the UCeDé endorsed the re-election of President Menem after the latter had sidestepped much of his populist Justicialist Party's platform in favor of a more conservative one. In 1999, he was elected to the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies as part of the Justicialist Party list. Shortly after a crisis led to President Fernando de la Rúa's December 2001 resignation, the Congress appointed Senator Eduardo Duhalde, a more traditional Peronist than Menem had been. Acquainted with Massa through Restaurant Workers' Union leader Luis Barrionuevo. Duhalde appointed Massa as Director of the ANSeS (Argentina's Social Security administration). The pragmatic Massa ran on President