Augusto Aníbal Álvarez Rodrich (born 12 October 1959) is a Peruvian economist and journalist who works in print, radio and television.

He also participated as advisor of projects for multilateral organisations and various processes of privatisation in Peru, Colombia and Guatemala.

[citation needed] He has been director of the daily Perú.21 since its foundation until November 2008, and anchor of the radio programme Ampliación de Noticias (news in depth, Radio Programas del Perú, RPP) and associate professor at the University of the Pacific.

He was director and anchor of the television programme Dos Dedos de Frente (Spanish expression for "common sense", Frecuencia Latina).

Álvarez is the author of various books and academic essays (in Spanish) on privatisation, the public sector and state reform: