Nelson Merentes

Nelson José Merentes Díaz (born 6 May 1954) is a Venezuelan mathematician, researcher, and politician.

Nelson Merentes
President of the Central Bank of Venezuela
In office
2014  2017[1]
PresidentNicolas Maduro
Preceded byEudomar Tovar
Succeeded byRicardo Sanguino
President of the Central Bank of Venezuela
In office
2009–2013
PresidentHugo Chávez
Preceded byGastón Parra Luzardo
Succeeded byEdmée Betancourt
Minister of Finance of Venezuela
In office
2004–2007
PresidentHugo Chávez
Preceded byTobías Nóbrega
Succeeded byRodrigo Cabezas
Minister of Science and Technology of Venezuela
In office
2002–2003
PresidentHugo Chávez
Preceded byCarlos Genatios
Succeeded byMarlene Yadira Córdova
Minister of Finance of Venezuela
In office
2001–2002
PresidentHugo Chávez
Preceded byJosé Alejandro Rojas
Succeeded byFrancisco Usón
Legislator at the National Legislative Committee
In office
2000–2000
Minister of Finance of Venezuela
In office
2013–2014
PresidentNicolas Maduro
Preceded byJorge Giordani
Succeeded byRodolfo Clemente Marco Torres
Personal details
Born (1954-05-06) 6 May 1954
Naiguatá, Vargas, Venezuela
NationalityVenezuelan
Political partyPSUV
Alma materCentral University of Venezuela
ProfessionMathematician, politician

Academic activity

In 1978 Merentes finished his bachelor's degree of Mathematics at Central University of Venezuela and continued his post graduate education taking courses on Economy and Finance, as well as in multifunction techniques for the study of economic problems, completing finally a doctorate in Mathematics with summa cum laude honors, at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest (Hungary) (1991).[2]

Merentes developed most of his research and teaching at Central University of Venezuela where he participated as professor, representative and member of various councils and committees.[3]

Public office work

Merentes also worked extensively in public administration. From 2000-2001 he was the Economy and Finance subcommittee's chairman of the National Legislative Committee. He also worked for the Ministry of Finance as deputy minister of Regulation and Control (2000-2001). In 2001 he was appointed as Minister of Finance of Venezuela by President Hugo Chavez. He held that position until the following year, when he was designated as Science and Technology Minister. From that position he was called by President Chavez for the presidency of Social Development Bank (BANDES), a position he left to return to the Ministry of Finance in early 2004. During his second term, took place the creation of the FONDEN, Venezuela's National Development Fund. From April 2009 he became a president of the Central Bank of Venezuela until 2013.[4]

On April 2013 is appointed as Venezuela's Minister of Finance by Nicolás Maduro.[5] In January 2014, he was re-designated as president of the Central Bank of Venezuela.[6]

Sanctions

In 2017, Canada sanctioned Merentes and other Venezuelan officials under the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, stating: "These individuals are responsible for, or complicit in, gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, have committed acts of significant corruption, or both."[7][8]

Published works

As a researcher Merentes has published more than 200 scientific papers, including some in specialized mathematical study journals.[9] His field of study was mainly focused on the study of differential equations and Lipschitz continuity. some of his notable contributions include:

  • On the Composition Operator in AC[a, b] (1991),
  • On the Composition Operator in BV φ[a; b] (1991)
  • On Functions of Bounded (p,k)-Variation (1992) (with S. Rivas and J. L. Sánchez)
  • Characterization of Globally Lipschitzian Composition Operators in the Banach Space BV2p [a, b] (1992) (with J. Matkowski)
  • Explicit Petree's function of interpolation of the spaces H p s (1993)
  • On the Composition Operator between RVp [a, b] and BV [a, b] (1995) (with S. Rivas)
  • Uniformly Continuous Set-valued Composition Operators in the Spaces of Functions of Bounded Variation in the Sense of Wiener (2010) (with A. Azócar, J. A. Guerrero and J. Matkowski)
  • Locally Lipschitz Composition Operators in Spaces of Functions of Bounded Variation (2010) (with J. Appell y J.L. Sanchez)
  • Measures of Noncompactness in the Study of Asymptotically Stable and Ultimately Nondecreasing Solutions of Integral Equations (2010) (with J. Appell y J. Banaś)
  • Exact Controllability of Semilinear Stochastic Evolution Equation (2011) (with D. Barráez, H. Leiva and M. Narváez)
  • Integral Representation of Functions of Bounded Second ϕ-Variation in the Sense of Schramm (2011) (with J. Giménez and S. Rivas)
  • Approximate Controllability of Semilinear Reaction Diffusion Equations (2012) (with H. Leiva and J. L. Sánchez)
  • Uniformly Bounded Set-valued Composition Operators in the Spaces of Functions of Bounded Variation in the Sense of Schramm (2012) (with T. Ereú, J. L. Sánchez and M. Wróbel)

References

  1. "Venezuela President Maduro names new central bank chief". Deutsche Welle. January 23, 2017. Archived from the original on April 21, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2018. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced during his weekly broadcast Sunday that economist Ricardo Sanguino was nominated to replace Nelson Merentes as the country's central bank chief.
  2. "Directorio" (in Spanish). Central Bank of Venezuela. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013. Retrieved March 28, 2013. Ph D. en Matemáticas, mención summa cum laude (Universidad de Budapest, Hungría, 1991).
  3. "Docentes". Postgrado de Matemáticas de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (in Spanish). Central University of Venezuela. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  4. "Galería de Expresidentes | Banco Central de Venezuela". www.bcv.org.ve.
  5. Delgado, Elkis (22 April 2013). "Nuevo gabinete de Maduro ratifica a diecisiete nombres" (in Spanish). El Universal (Venezuela). Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  6. "Maduro mantendrá el dólar a 6,30 y creará otro sistema cambiario" (in Spanish). El Nacional. 16 January 2014. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  7. "Canadian sanctions related to Venezuela". Government of Canada. 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  8. "Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials - Case 2". Government of Canada. 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  9. "Nelson Merentes - Google Scholar Citations". Google Scholar. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
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