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Quick facts for kids Presidency of the Council of Ministers
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Great Seal of the State
Incumbent Eduardo Arana Ysa since 14 May 2025
Cabinet of Peru
Style	His/Her Excellency
Appointer	President of Peru
Inaugural holder	Juan Manuel del Mar
Formation	December 1856
Salary	S/. 30,000 (monthly)

The Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Spanish: Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros, PCM) of Peru is the governmental organisation that oversees the Council of Ministers and coordinates and monitors the multisectoral policies and programmes of the Executive Branch, as well as coordinates actions with the Legislative Branch, the Autonomous Constitutional Bodies, and the entities and commissions of the Executive Branch, aligning priorities to ensure compliance with objectives of national interest.

It is headed by the President of the Council of Ministers (Spanish: Presidente del Consejo de Ministros), is also called the Prime Minister or Premier (form of address), who serves as head of the cabinet and as the most senior member of the Council of Ministers, being appointed by the president of Peru (pending ratification by Congress, as with all other cabinet members). Eduardo Arana Ysa serves as the incumbent President of the Council of Ministers since 14 May 2025.

The president of the Council of Ministers is not the head of government, since the president of Peru serves both as head of state and head of government. Peru is one of the few countries in Latin America (others include Cuba, and Haiti) where the position of prime minister currently exists.

History

The office was created in 1856, when the Council of Ministers was itself created through that year's constitution. Under the governments of Mariano Ignacio Prado (1865–1867) and Nicolás de Piérola (1879–1881), the ministries took the names of secretariats, and the head of state directly oversaw the functions attributed to the president of the Council of Ministers.

Organisation

• Senior Management
  • President of the Council of Ministers
  • General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
• Institutional Control Body
• Judicial Defense Body
• Advisory Bodies
  • General Office of Legal Counsel
  • General Office of Planning and Budget
• Support Bodies
  • General Office of Administration
  • General Office of Social Communication
• Line Bodies
  • Coordination Secretariat
  • Public Management Secretariat
  • Decentralization Secretariat
• Specialized Technical Bodies
  • National Technical Directorate of Territorial Demarcation
  • National Office of Electronic Government and Information Technology
• Vice Ministry of Territorial Governance
  • Decentralisation Secretariat
  • Social Management and Secretariat Dialogue
  • Secretariat of Demarcation and Territorial Organization
• Permanent Coordination Committees
• Attached Committees and Collegiate Bodies

Entities administered by the ministry include:

• National Civil Service Authority (SERVIR)
• National Infrastructure Authority (ANIN)
• National Centre for Strategic Planning (CEPLAN)
• National Commission for Development and Life without Drugs (DEVIDA)
• National Council for Science, Technology, and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC)
• National Intelligence Directorate (DINI)
• National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI)
• National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI)
• Forest Resources Oversight Agency (OSINFOR)
• Private Investment Supervisory Agency in Telecommunications (OSIPTEL)
• Energy and Mining Investment Supervisory Agency (OSINERGMIN)
• Public Transportation Infrastructure Investment Supervisory Agency (OSITRAN)
• National Superintendency of Services and Sanitation (SUNASS)
• Secretariat FONAVI Technical Support for the Ad Hoc Commission (FONAVI-ST)
• High-Level Anti-Corruption Commission (CAN)
• Commission Responsible for Proposing Administrative and Management Reform Actions and Measures for the Reorganisation of the Presidential Office (CRDP)
• National Coca Company (ENACO S.A)
• Citizen Service Centres (MAC)

List of Prime Ministers

No.	Picture	Prime Minister	Took office	Left office	President
1		Juan Manuel del Mar Bernedo	December 1856	1857	Ramón Castilla
2		José María Raygada y Gallo (1st time)	1857	15 July 1858
3		Miguel de San Román	15 July 1858	October 1858
2		José María Raygada y Gallo (2nd time)	October 1858	1861
4		Juan Antonio Pezet	1861	1863
					Miguel de San Román
					Ramón Castilla
					Pedro Diez Canseco
5		Juan Antonio Ribeyro Estrada	1863	August 1864	Juan Antonio Pezet
6		Manuel Costas Arce	August 1864	11 April 1865
7		Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco	11 April 1865	September 1865
					Mariano Ignacio Prado
					Juan Antonio Pezet
8		Pedro José Calderón	September 1865	8 November 1865
9		Mariano Ignacio Prado	8 November 1865	June 1867	Pedro Diez Canseco
					Mariano Ignacio Prado
10		Pedro José de Saavedra [es]	June 1867	January 1868
11		Luis La Puerta	January 1868	8 January 1868
12		Antonio Arenas (1st time)	8 January 1868	2 August 1868	Pedro Diez Canseco
13		José Balta	2 August 1868	2 August 1871	José Balta
14		José Allende	2 August 1871	1872
15		José Jorge Loayza (1st time)	1872	1872	Francisco Diez Canseco
					Mariano Herencia Zevallos
16		José Miguel Medina [es]	2 August 1872	3 September 1873	Manuel Pardo
17		José Eusebio Sánchez Pedraza [es]	3 September 1873	1874
18		José de la Riva-Agüero y Looz Corswarem	1874	1875
19		Nicolás Freire González [es]	1875	1876
12		Antonio Arenas (2nd time)	2 August 1876	26 August 1876	Mariano Ignacio Prado
20		Teodoro La Rosa [es]	26 August 1876	4 June 1877
21		Juan Buendía Noriega	4 June 1877	18 June 1878
15		José Jorge Loayza (2nd time)	18 June 1878	17 December 1878
22		Manuel Irigoyen Larrea (1st time)	17 December 1878	19 May 1879
23		Manuel de Mendiburu	19 May 1879	16 October 1879
24		Manuel Gonzáles de la Cotera [es]	16 October 1879	23 December 1879
25		Aurelio Denegri Valega (1st time)	March 1881	November 1881	Francisco García Calderón
26		Lorenzo Iglesias Pino de Arce [es]	3 January 1883	27 August 1883	Lizardo Montero Flores
27		Manuel Antonio Barinaga (1st time)	27 August 1883	7 April 1884
					Andrés Avelino Cáceres
28		Mariano Castro Zaldívar Iglesias [es]	7 April 1884	14 May 1885
29		Joaquín Iglesias Pino de Arce	14 May 1885	3 December 1885
12		Antonio Arenas (3rd time)	3 December 1885	5 June 1886	Himself
30		Pedro Alejandrino del Solar Gabans (1st time)	5 June 1886	6 October 1886	Andrés Avelino Cáceres
31		José Nicolas Araníbar y Llano [es]	6 October 1886	22 November 1886
30		Pedro Alejandrino del Solar Gabans (2nd time)	22 November 1886	22 August 1887
32		Mariano Santos Álvarez Villegas [es]	22 August 1887	12 September 1887
33		Carlos Maria Elías y de la Quintana (1st time)	12 September 1887	5 October 1887
—		Raymundo Morales Arias [es] Acting Prime Minister	5 October 1887	8 November 1887
25		Aurelio Denegri Valega (2nd time)	8 November 1887	8 March 1889
34		José Mariano Jiménez Wald (1st time)	8 March 1889	4 April 1889
30		Pedro Alejandrino del Solar Gabans (3rd time)	4 April 1889	10 February 1890
22		Manuel Irigoyen Larrea (2nd time)	11 February 1890	10 August 1890
35		Augusto Huaman-Velasco Billinghurst	10 August 1890	24 July 1891	Remigio Morales Bermúdez
—		Alberto Elmore Fernández de Córdoba Acting Prime Minister	24 July 1891	14 August 1891
36		Federico Herrera (1st time)	1 August 1891	24 August 1891
37		Justiniano Borgoño	24 August 1891	14 October 1891
—		Federico Herrera (2nd time)	14 October 1891	27 November 1891 (acting)
36			27 November 1891	14 April 1892
—		Juan Ibarra [es]	14 April 1892	2 May 1892 (acting)
38			2 May 1892	30 June 1892
33		Carlos Maria Elías y de la Quintana (2nd time)	30 June 1892	3 March 1893
39		Manuel Velarde Seoane	3 March 1893	11 May 1893
34		José Mariano Jiménez Wald (2nd time)	11 May 1893	1 April 1894
40		Baltasar García Urrutia [es]	1 April 1894	10 August 1894	Justiniano Borgoño
41		Cesáreo Chacaltana Reyes (1st time)	10 August 1894	16 November 1894	Andrés Avelino Cáceres
22		Manuel Irigoyen Larrea (3rd time)	16 November 1894	20 March 1895
42		Antonio Bentín y La Fuente [es]	8 September 1895	30 November 1895	Nicolás de Piérola
27		Manuel Antonio Barinaga (2nd time)	30 November 1895	8 August 1896
43		Manuel Pablo Olaechea Guerrero [es]	8 August 1896	25 November 1897
44		Alejandro López de Romaña Alvizuri [es]	25 November 1897	16 May 1898
15		José Jorge Loayza (3rd time)	16 May 1898	8 September 1899
45		Manuel María Gálvez Egúsquiza	8 September 1899	14 December 1899	Eduardo López de Romaña
46		Enrique de la Riva-Agüero y Looz Corswaren (1st time)	14 December 1899	30 August 1900
47		Enrique Coronel Zegarra Castro [es]	30 August 1900	2 October 1900
48		Domingo M. Almenara Butler	2 October 1900	11 September 1901
41		Cesáreo Chacaltana Reyes (2nd time)	11 September 1901	9 August 1902
49		Cesáreo Octavio Deustua Escarza	9 August 1902	4 November 1902
50		Eugenio Larrabure y Unanue	4 November 1902	8 September 1903
51		José Pardo y Barreda	8 September 1903	14 May 1904	Manuel Candamo
					Serapio Calderón
52		Alberto Elmore Fernández de Córdoba	14 May 1904	24 September 1904
53		Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo	24 September 1904	1 August 1907	José Pardo y Barreda
54		Agustín Tovar [es]	1 August 1907	9 October 1907
55		Carlos A. Washburn Salas [es]	9 October 1907	24 September 1908
56		Eulogio I. Romero Salcedo [es]	24 September 1908	8 June 1909	Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo
57		Rafael Fernández de Villanueva Cortez [es]	8 June 1909	14 March 1910
58		Javier Prado y Ugarteche [es]	14 March 1910	3 August 1910
59		Germán Schreiber Waddington (1st time)	3 August 1910	3 November 1910
60		José Salvador Cavero Ovalle	3 November 1910	27 December 1910
61		Enrique C. Basadre Stevenson	27 December 1910	31 August 1911
62		Agustín Guillermo Ganoza Cavero [es]	31 August 1911	24 September 1912
63		Elías Malpartida	24 September 1912	23 December 1912	Guillermo Billinghurst
64		Enrique Varela Vidaurre (1st time)	24 December 1912	24 February 1913
65		Federico Luna y Peralta [es]	24 February 1913	17 June 1913
66		Aurelio Sousa Matute (1st time)	17 June 1913	27 July 1913
64		Enrique Varela Vidaurre (2nd time)	27 July 1913	4 February 1914
67		Pedro E. Muñiz Sevilla [es]	16 May 1914	1 August 1914	Óscar Benavides
68		Manuel Melitón Carvajal [es]	1 August 1914	2 August 1914
66		Aurelio Sousa Matute (2nd time)	22 August 1914	11 November 1914
59		Germán Schreiber Waddington (2nd time)	11 November 1914	18 February 1915
69		Carlos Isaac Abril Galindo [es]	18 February 1915	24 September 1915	José Pardo y Barreda
64		Enrique de la Riva-Agüero y Looz Corswaren (2nd time)	24 September 1915	27 July 1917
70		Francisco Tudela y Varela	27 July 1917	18 December 1918
71		Germán Arenas y Loayza (1st time)	18 December 1918	26 April 1919
72		Juan Manuel Zuloaga [es]	26 April 1919	4 July 1919
73		Germán Leguía y Martínez Jakeway [es]	4 July 1919	7 October 1922	Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo
74		Julio Enrique Ego Aguirre [es]	7 October 1922	12 October 1924
75		Alejandrino Maguiña [es]	12 October 1924	7 December 1926
76		Pedro José Rada y Gamio	7 December 1926	12 October 1929
77		Benjamín Huamán de los Heros [es]	12 October 1929	23 August 1930
78		Fernando Sarmiento [es]	23 August 1930	25 August 1930
79		Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro	25 August 1930	24 November 1930	Manuel María Ponce Brousset
					Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
80		Antonio Beingolea [es]	24 November 1930	1 March 1931
71		Germán Arenas y Loayza (2nd time)	8 December 1931	28 January 1932	Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
81		Francisco R. Lanatta Ramírez [es]	29 January 1932	13 April 1932
82		Luis A. Flores	13 April 1932	20 May 1932
83		Ricardo Rivadeneyra Barnuevo [es] (1872–1954)	21 May 1932	24 December 1932
84		José Matías Manzanilla Barrientos [es] (1867–1947)	24 December 1932	29 June 1933
					Óscar Benavides
85		Jorge Prado y Ugarteche [es] (1887–1970)	29 June 1933	24 November 1933
86		José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma (1885–1944)	24 November 1933	18 May 1934
87		Alberto Rey de Castro y Romaña (1st time) (1869–1961)	September 1934	24 December 1934
88		Carlos Arenas y Loayza [es] (1885–1955)	24 December 1934	May 1935
89		Manuel Esteban Rodríguez [es] (1883–1952)	21 May 1935	13 April 1936
90		Ernesto Montagne Markholz (1885–1954)	8 December 1936	12 April 1939
87		Alberto Rey de Castro y Romaña (2nd time) (1869–1961)	12 April 1939	8 December 1939
91		Alfredo Solf y Muro (1872–1969)	8 December 1939	3 December 1944	Manuel Prado y Ugarteche
92		Manuel Cisneros Sánchez (1st time) (1904–1971)	3 December 1944	28 July 1945
93		Rafael Belaúnde Diez Canseco [es] (1886–1972)	28 July 1945	31 January 1946	José Bustamante y Rivero
94		Julio Ernesto Portugal Escobedo [es] (1894–1972)	31 January 1946	12 January 1947
95		José R. Alzamora Freundt [es] (1891–1953)	12 January 1947	30 October 1947
96		Roque Augusto Saldías Maninat (1st time) (1892–1974)	27 February 1948	17 June 1948
97		Armando Revoredo Iglesias [es] (1896–1978)	17 June 1948	29 October 1948
98		Zenón Noriega Agüero (1900–1957)	28 July 1950	9 August 1954	Manuel A. Odría
96		Roque Augusto Saldías Maninat (2nd time) (1892–1974)	9 August 1954	28 July 1956
92		Manuel Cisneros Sánchez (2nd time) (1904–1971)	28 July 1956	9 June 1958	Manuel Prado y Ugarteche
99		Luis Gallo Porras (1894–1972)	9 June 1958	18 July 1959
100		Pedro Beltrán Espantoso (1897–1979)	18 July 1959	24 November 1961
101		Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán (1898–1981)	24 November 1961	18 July 1962
102		Nicolás Lindley López (1908–1995)	18 July 1962	3 March 1963	Ricardo Pérez Godoy
			3 March 1963	28 July 1963	Nicolás Lindley López
103		Óscar Trelles Montes (1904–1990)	28 July 1963	31 December 1963	Fernando Belaúnde Terry
104		Fernando Schwalb (1st time) (1916–2002)	31 December 1963	15 September 1965
105		Daniel Becerra de la Flor [es] (1906–1987)	15 September 1965	6 September 1967
106		Edgardo Seoane Corrales (1903–1978)	6 September 1967	17 November 1967
107		Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati (1911–1977)	17 November 1967	30 May 1968
108		Oswaldo Hercelles García [es] (1908–1969)	30 May 1968	2 October 1968
109		Miguel Mujica Gallo [es] (1910–2001)	2 October 1968	3 October 1968
110		Ernesto Montagne Sánchez (1916–1993)	3 October 1968	31 January 1973	Juan Velasco Alvarado
111		Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín (1919–2012)	31 January 1973	1 February 1975
112		Francisco Morales Bermúdez (1921–2022)	1 February 1975	30 August 1975
113		Óscar Vargas Prieto (1917–1989)	30 August 1975	31 January 1976	Francisco Morales Bermúdez
114		Jorge Fernández Maldonado Solari (1922–2000)	31 January 1976	16 July 1976
115		Guillermo Arbulú Galliani (1921–1998)	17 July 1976	30 January 1978
116		Óscar Molina Pallochia [es] (1921–1990)	30 January 1978	31 January 1979
117		Pedro Richter Prada (1921–2017)	31 January 1979	28 July 1980
118		Manuel Ulloa Elías (1922–1992)	28 July 1980	3 January 1983	Fernando Belaúnde Terry
104		Fernando Schwalb (2nd time) (1916–2002)	3 January 1983	10 April 1984
119		Sandro Mariátegui Chiappe (1921–2013)	12 October 1984	28 July 1985
120		Luis Ciro Pércovich Roca (1931–2017)	12 October 1984	28 July 1985
121		Luis Juan Alva Castro (born 1942)	28 July 1985	26 June 1987	Alan García Pérez
122		Guillermo Larco Cox (1st time) (1932–2002)	26 June 1987	17 May 1988
123		Armando Villanueva del Campo (1915–2013)	17 May 1988	15 May 1989
124		Luis Alberto Felix Sánchez (1900–1994)	15 May 1989	30 September 1989
122		Guillermo Larco Cox (2nd time) (1932–2002)	30 September 1989	28 July 1990
125		Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller (born 1940)	28 July 1990	15 February 1991	Alberto Fujimori
126		Carlos Torres y Torres Lara [es] (1942–2000)	15 February 1991	6 November 1991
127		Alfonso de los Heros Pérez-Albela [es] (born 1939)	6 November 1991	6 April 1992
128		Óscar de la Puente Raygada [es] (born 1938)	6 April 1992	28 August 1993
129		Alfonso Bustamante y Bustamante (born 1941)	28 August 1993	17 February 1994
130		Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber (born 1929)	17 February 1994	28 July 1995
131		Dante Córdova Blanco (born 1943)	28 July 1995	3 April 1996
132		Alberto Pandolfi Arbulú (1st time) (born 1940)	3 April 1996	4 June 1998
133		Javier Valle Riestra González Olachea (1932–2024)	4 June 1998	21 August 1998
132		Alberto Pandolfi Arbulú (2nd time) (born 1940)	21 August 1998	3 January 1999
134		Víctor Dionicio Joy Way Rojas (born 1945)	3 January 1999	10 October 1999
135		José Alberto Bustamante Belaúnde (1950–2008)	10 October 1999	29 July 2000
136		Federico Salas Guevara Schultz (1950–2021)	29 July 2000	22 November 2000
137		Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920–2020)	22 November 2000	28 July 2001	Valentín Paniagua
138		Roberto Enrique Dañino Zapata (born 1951)	28 July 2001	12 July 2002	Alejandro Toledo
139		Luis Solari De La Fuente (born 1948)	12 July 2002	28 June 2003
140		Martha Beatriz Merino Lucero (born 1947)	28 June 2003	15 December 2003
141		Carlos Ferrero Costa (1941–2025)	15 December 2003	16 August 2005
142		Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (born 1938)	16 August 2005	28 July 2006
143		Jorge del Castillo Gálvez (born 1950)	28 July 2006	14 October 2008	Alan García Pérez
144		Yehude Simon Munaro (born 1947)	14 October 2008	11 July 2009
145		Javier Velásquez (born 1960)	11 July 2009	14 September 2010
146		José Antonio Chang (born 1958)	14 September 2010	18 March 2011
147		Rosario Fernández (born 1955)	19 March 2011	28 July 2011
148		Salomón Lerner Ghitis (born 1946)	28 July 2011	10 December 2011	Ollanta Humala
149		Oscar Valdés (born 1949)	11 December 2011	23 July 2012
150		Juan Jiménez Mayor (born 1964)	23 July 2012	31 October 2013
151		César Villanueva (1st time) (born 1946)	31 October 2013	24 February 2014
152		René Cornejo (born 1962)	24 February 2014	22 July 2014
153		Ana Jara (born 1968)	22 July 2014	2 April 2015
154		Pedro Cateriano (1st time) (born 1958)	2 April 2015	28 July 2016
155		Fernando Zavala Lombardi (born 1971)	28 July 2016	17 September 2017	Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
156		Mercedes Aráoz Fernández (born 1961)	17 September 2017	2 April 2018
151		César Villanueva (2nd time) (born 1946)	2 April 2018	8 March 2019	Martín Vizcarra
157		Salvador del Solar (born 1970)	11 March 2019	30 September 2019
158		Vicente Zeballos (born 1963)	30 September 2019	15 July 2020
154		Pedro Cateriano (2nd time) (born 1958)	15 July 2020	6 August 2020
159		Walter Martos (1957–2025)	6 August 2020	9 November 2020
160		Ántero Flores Aráoz (born 1942)	11 November 2020	15 November 2020	Manuel Merino
161		Violeta Bermúdez (born 1961)	18 November 2020	28 July 2021	Francisco Sagasti
162		Guido Bellido (born 1979)	29 July 2021	6 October 2021	Pedro Castillo
163		Mirtha Vásquez (born 1975)	6 October 2021	1 February 2022
164		Héctor Valer (born 1959)	1 February 2022	8 February 2022
165		Aníbal Torres (born 1942)	8 February 2022	24 November 2022
166		Betssy Chávez (born 1989)	26 November 2022	7 December 2022
167		Pedro Angulo Arana (born 1960)	11 December 2022	21 December 2022	Dina Boluarte
168		Alberto Otárola (born 1967)	21 December 2022	5 March 2024
169		Gustavo Adrianzén (born 1966)	6 March 2024	13 May 2025
170		Eduardo Arana Ysa	14 May 2025	Incumbent

Timeline since 1980

See also

In Spanish: Presidente del Consejo de Ministros del Perú para niños