Julio de Vido

Julio Miguel de Vido (born December 26, 1949) is an Argentine politician who was Minister of Planning and Public Investment between 2003 and 2015.

[2][3] His wife, Alessandra Minnicelli, served as Director of SIGEN (the chief auditing office of the Argentine government) from 2003 to 2007, and the couple has been the focus of a number of investigations regarding their increasing net worth.

[5] Minister de Vido was instrumental in shaping President Cristina Kirchner's record US$32 billion public works plan for 2009-2010.

He later confirmed that the plan's headline project, the construction of the Buenos Aires-Rosario-Córdoba high-speed railway (the first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere),[6] would be postponed in favor of developing greater nuclear power capacity to satisfy growing electricity demand.

De Vido was appointed on April 16, 2012, to head the Federal intervention of YPF, the leading fossil fuel producer and distributor in Argentina.