Juan Carlos Tedesco (5 February 1944 – 8 May 2017) was an Argentine academic and policy maker who was the President's Education Minister, from December 2007 to July 2009.

Enrolling at the University of Buenos Aires, he graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Letters in 1968.

[2] The experience earned him the post of Director of the IBE in Geneva, a position he held until 1997, and as head of the Buenos Aires UNESCO bureau, until 2004.

Following a defeat in the 28 June 2009, mid-term elections and a resulting cabinet shake-up, however, he was replaced on 20 July by Sileoni.

Tedesco was made executive director of the Unit of Strategic Planning and Evaluation of the Argentine Educational System, an agency within the Office of the President.