Sandra Pettovello

Sandra Viviana Pettovello, born in 1968, is an Argentine journalist, consultant and politician who has served as Minister of Human Capital since 10 December 2023, appointed by President Javier Milei. The ministry was newly created and combined the former ministries of culture, education, labor and social development, and she was the first minister Milei named while campaigning. She studied journalism at the University of Belgrano and family sciences at Austral University, worked as a radio columnist and television news producer, and from 2021 to 2023 was a vice president of the Union of the Democratic Centre party in the city of Buenos Aires. Her tenure has been marked by a dispute in early 2024 over the supply of food to government funded soup kitchens, which led to a criminal complaint over suspended deliveries, and by criticism of her public image during austerity measures.