Javier Alberto Barreda Jara (13 December 1966 – 3 June 2019) was a Peruvian sociologist, writer and public administrator.

[2] Javier Barreda made his high school studies at the Emblematic Educational Institution of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Lima.

Likewise, he taught in the Leadership Program for the Transformation of CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and the Government Institute of the San Martín de Porres University.

On January 9, 2018, he was sworn in as Minister of Labor and Employment Promotion, convened by President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in the so-called "Cabinet of Reconciliation".

Its management reactivated the National Labor Council, an area of agreement between workers and employers, and put forward the debate on the increase of the minimum wage in Peru.