Azucena María Arbeleche Perdomo (born 29 September 1970) is a Uruguayan professor, economist and civil servant who serves as Minister of Economy and Finance of Uruguay since 1 March 2020 under president Luis Lacalle Pou, being the first woman to hold that office.

[6] From March 1995 to December 1996, she served as a collaborator at BGV Corredores de Bolsa, and from 1998 to 2000 at the Center for Economic and Financial Research in Santiago.

[7] In 2001 she joined the Macroeconomic Advisory of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, at the request of her former professor ant then minister Isaac Alfie.

[7][9] From 2005 to 2010, she served as an advisor to the Debt Management Unit of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, at the request of then-minister Danilo Astori.

[12][13] On 16 December 2019, she was formally announced by the president-elect Lacalle Pou as head of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, becoming on 1 March 2020, the first woman to hold the position.