Alejandro Oscar Finocchiaro (born 27 August 1967) is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Argentina.

[7] Between 2011 and 2015, Finocchiaro served as Secretary of Educational Policies and Teaching Career in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

[8] In December 2015 he was appointed by governor María Eugenia Vidal as general director of Culture and Education of the province of Buenos Aires.

[10] Shortly after assuming his post, he decided to reduce the Our School program by canceling the plan that allowed thousands of teachers across the country to access a free postgraduate course through online training courses, starting in January 2018 with the closing of three posts.

[16] In 2019, he ran for mayor of La Matanza as part of the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.

[17] His greatest achievement is the arrival of technology in the classroom: he connected 19 thousand schools to the Internet and now Argentine children learn programming and robotics from kindergarten.

In 2018, he pointed to Argentina as one of the five countries in the world that had made the greatest progress in digital literacy and in 2019 in a document entitled "Artificial Intelligence in education: challenges and opportunities for sustainable development", highlights the Learn Connected program that promoted the Ministry of Education.