Juan Octavio Guiliani Cury is best known as a conciliator and promoter of business. He was one of the original economists that founded the Center for Exports (Cedopex) in the 1970s. He is also the founder of Medios del Caribe with Fernando Gonzalez Nicolas. This entity went on to create many chambers of commerce with Commonwealth countries. The late Guiliani is also the founder of the Dominican Association of Private Banks (ABA).
He served as deputy minister at the Ministry of Foreign Relations and deputy minister at the Ministry Industry & Commerce. He was also the dean of the School of Economics at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU). He was executive director of the Latin American Group of Exporter Countries (Geplacea) and first secretary at the Dominican Embassy in Canada.
At the time of his death, he was the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Guyana in the Dominican Republic and kept a weekly column in Listin Diario.
He is survived by his wife Olga Cortiñas Estrella and three offspring: Rachele, Juan Mauricio and Juan Enrique.
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Listin Diario
El Dinero
29 May 2023