Jorge Roberto Hernán Lacunza (born February 25, 1969) is an Argentine economist, appointed in 2019 as Minister of the Treasury of the Mauricio Macri administration.

Lacunza was appointed as General Manager at Central Bank of Argentina between 2008 and early 2010, after being designated as Chief Economist between 2005 and 2008 He returned to the private sector by founding his consulting firm Empiria Consultores Economía y Finanza.

At the same time, in spite of a sharp fall in activity level because of macroeconomic problems since 2018, the financial fiscal deficit was reduced from 1.1% to 0.6% of GDP, as well as the Province recovered the primary surplus since 2017 until now.

On August 17, 2019, in a context of high economic and political uncertainty after the government had been defeated at primary elections, Lacunza assumed the position of Minister of Treasury of Argentina.

[8][9] On 1 September by decree, he arranged currency controls: a limit of $10,000 per month for the purchase of dollars, the obligation for transnational companies to seek authorization from the Central Bank to spin dividends to their parent companies abroad, and a maximum time limit for exporters to settle the currencies generated in their operations.