Antonio Beun

Argentina

Master of Public Policy (MPP), 2018
Kellogg College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann

Antonio is the Argentine son of Korean immigrants. He studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, comparative law in Germany and attended Georgetown University’s Global Competitiveness Leadership Program. Since graduation, Antonio has spent five years working in the public sector. He served two years as Legislative Director and, in 2016, he was appointed Deputy Secretary of Cooperation at the Ministry of Culture and led on capacity building initiatives before becoming the Executive Secretary of Argentina 2030, the government’s initiative for long-term planning and strategy.

Antonio is currently leading the knowledge management, development and implementation of a scale-up framework with Bloomberg Philanthropies to replicate evidence-based policy innovations on digital transformation, childhood obesity, community-based micro-lending, and road safety across +300 cities internationally. He was promoted to Project Leader at Delivery Associates, Global Public Sector Consulting Firm in 2022 and started co-leading the Latin America and Caribbean region and practice. Antonio is currently based in Mexico City, Mexico.