Jorge Taiana

Jorge Taiana
Official portrait, 2023
Minister of Defense
In office
10 August 2021 – 10 December 2023
PresidentAlberto Fernández
Preceded byAgustín Rossi
Succeeded byLuis Petri
National Senator
In office
10 December 2019 – 9 August 2021
Preceded byCristina Fernández de Kirchner
Succeeded byJuliana Di Tullio
ConstituencyBuenos Aires
Legislator of the City of Buenos Aires
In office
10 December 2013 – 10 December 2015
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship
In office
1 December 2005 – 18 June 2010
PresidentNéstor Kirchner
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Preceded byRafael Bielsa
Succeeded byHéctor Timerman
Personal details
Born (1950-05-31) 31 May 1950
Buenos Aires, Argentina
PartyJusticialist Party
Other political
affiliations
Front for Victory (2003–2017)
Unidad Ciudadana (2017–2019)
Frente de Todos (2019–present)
Alma materLatin American Faculty of Social Sciences
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Jorge Enrique Taiana (born 31 May 1950) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who served as the country's Minister of Defense from 2021 to 2023. Taiana previously served as Foreign Minister in the administrations of President Néstor Kirchner and his successor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, from 2005 to 2010, and as a National Senator for Buenos Aires from 2019 to 2021.

His father was Jorge Alberto Taiana, colleague and physician of former President Juan Perón.

As of 2025, he is leading the Unión por la Patria in Buenos Aires Province list as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies.