Juan Manuel Urtubey (born September 6, 1969) is an Argentine politician, lawyer, university professor and former governor of Salta Province.

Formerly a senior figure in the ruling Front for Victory faction of the Justicialist Party (PJ) in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and chairman of both the Constitutional Affairs Committee and the Peronist Caucus, Urtubey became governor in the 2007 elections, being only 38 years old.

He ran for vice president as the running mate of Roberto Lavagna in the 2019 general election under the Federal Consensus alliance, winning 6.14% of the popular vote.

[1] Since young, he developed interest for political activities, and took his uncle, Julio Mera Figueroa, a peronist politician as a mentor.

[2] His most important activities were to be co-author of the Obediencia Debida and Punto Final laws, that helped to pursue last military coup crimes against humanity.

In spite of his alliance to the current Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner he was always noticed for publicly criticizing National Government's actions, decisions and policies he opposed to.

One of those examples is an article that narrated the story of "an extremly [sic] poor mother that boiled a rock to look as she was cooking while her famished sons went to sleep", with an illustrative picture.

[14] Urtubey had been frequently criticized for his extravagant way of life that includes sport motorcycle riding, or bungee jumping from the highest building in Auckland.

However, in many aspects, his economic policy was innovative for the Province: he renewed the public employee payroll as to include in the provincial Government trained youth force from every social strata.

[20] Regarding to Tourism Policies, the Province encouraged international quality sport events, as to make Salta one of the principal tourist destinations in South America.

[30] On November 17, 2011, encouraged by Governor Urtubey, the provincial congress passed the law number 7651 that created the Historic Reparation Fund for the North of the Province of Salta.

[32] The Historic Reparation Fund, "breaks the negative intromission of sectors that don't represent institutions" as well as benefiting "the long forgotten people of Salta" [33] by creating infrastructure and jobs.

Since his second provincial government, Urtubey works together with Daniel Scioli, governor of Buenos Aires Province in the area of tourism.