Luis Arce

President of Bolivia

Luis Alberto Arce Catacora 28 September 1963 La Paz, Bolivia

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Incumbent

67th President of Bolivia For the Bolivian Army colonel and minister of the interior in the 1980s, see Luis Arce Gómez. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Arce and the second or maternal family name is Catacora. Luis Alberto Arce Catacora (born 28 September 1963), also known as Lucho Arce, is a Bolivian politician serving as the 67th President of Bolivia since 2020. He served as Minister of Economy and Public Finance from 2006 to 2017 and in 2019 during the administration of Evo Morales. He is a member of the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP) political party. Arce was born in La Paz to a middle-class family. He graduated as an accountant from Institute of Banking Education in La Paz in 1984 before obtaining degrees in economics at the Higher University of San Andrés and the University of Warwick in England. He spent most of the 1990s as a public official in a succession of posts and teaching economics at various universities. In 2006 he was appointed Minister of Finance by the newly elected president, Evo Morales. Arce oversaw a period of economic growth in Bolivia, and as a member of MAS gained a reputation for being a technocrat. Arce was chosen as the presidential candidate for the Movement for Socialism in the 2020 general election, which he won in the first round with 55.1% of the vote.