Gonzalo García Núñez (16 February 1947 – 8 January 2024) was a Peruvian industrial engineer from the Peruvian National University of Engineering Lima (1968), a graduate of the French centre of economics programs (CEPE), and the holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Grenoble University.

A member of "Justice and Liberty", he was invited by Ollanta Humala, the candidate of the Peruvian Nationalist Party and he ran as Humala's first Vice President during the 2006 national election in the coalition between Union for Peru and the Peruvian Nationalist Party.

In this period the inflation was 2 per cent on average between 2001 and 2006, the exchange rate was very stable and the international reserves growth at a high level in Peru's economic history.

The board approved the inflation targeting rule in December 2001, proposed by experts of the bank, and ran the monetary policy with a very complex model of mathematical prevision and forecasts during the five years leading up to this time.

García worked as a teacher in the Postgraduate section of UNI and a consultant for international scientific and technical cooperation organizations.