Danilo Astori, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Danilo Astori

Uruguayan politician

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1940

Place of Birth: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Profession: politician, professor, economist

Nationality: Uruguay

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Danilo Ángel Astori Saragosa (born April 23, 1940) is a Uruguayan social democratic politician who was Vice President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.
On March 4, 2015, Astori took office as Minister of Economics and Finance, a post he previously held from 2005 to 2008.
He is the main leader of the Asamblea Uruguay party, which is part of the ruling centre-left Broad Front. In 1965 he undertook a course of Development and Planning of the UN, in Santiago de Chile.
Two years later he integrated a seminar on statistical indicators of agricultural development organized by FAO and the government of the Soviet Union in Moscow. He was a professor of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of the Republic, of which he was dean in 1973. After the military dictatorship, he resumed the position during the period of 1985-1989.