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{{Short description|Argentine sociologist, journalist, diplomat and politician}}
{{Family name hatnote|Calcagno|Maillmann|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Eric Calcagno y Maillmann
| image name=Calcagno Eric.jpg
| office= [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|National Deputy]]
| term_start=10 December 2011
| term_end=10 December 2015
| constituency= [[Buenos Aires Province|Buenos Aires]]
| office2=[[Argentine Senate|National Senator]]
| term_start2=10 December 2007
| term_end2=10 December 2011
| constituency2= [[Buenos Aires Province|Buenos Aires]]
| preceded2=[[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]]
| succeeded2=[[Aníbal Fernández]]
| office3=Undersecretary of Small and Medium Enterprises
| president3=[[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]]
| term_start3=18 February 2008
| term_end3=July 2008
| preceded3=[[Matías Kulfas]]
| succeeded3=Jorge Caradonti
| ambassador_from4=Argentine
| country4=France
| president4=[[Néstor Kirchner]]
| term_start4=December 2005
| term_end4=December 2007
| preceded4=[[Archibaldo Lanús]]
| succeeded4=[[Luis Ureta Sáenz Peña]]
| birth_date={{birth date and age|1967|4|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place= [[La Plata]], Argentina
| death_date=
| death_place=
| party= [[Justicialist Party]]
| otherparty = [[Front for Victory]] 
| spouse=
| profession=Sociologist
| website=
|alma_mater=[[École Nationale d'Administration]]
}}
'''Eric Calcagno y Maillmann''' (born 9 April 1967) is an [[Argentina|Argentine]] sociologist, journalist, diplomat and politician. A member of the [[Justicialist Party]], Calcagno served terms in both houses of the [[National Congress of Argentina|Argentine Congress]], first as a [[Argentine Senate|Senator]] from 2007 to 2011, and later as a [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|Deputy]] from 2011 to 2015. He was Argentina's ambassador to France from 2005 to 2007.

==Early life and education==
Born in [[La Plata]], Calcagno comes from a family with a strong background in academia and connections with France. His grandfather, Alfredo Domingo Calcagno, rector of the [[National University of La Plata]], was the Argentine ambassador to [[UNESCO]] in Paris during the [[President of Argentina|Presidency]] of [[Arturo Frondizi]]. His father, Alfredo Eric Calcagno, studied at the [[Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris]] before working for the [[United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean|United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America]] for more than twenty years.

Calcagno studied at French schools and, in the early 1990s, graduated from the [[École Nationale d'Administration]] in France in public administration and from the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] in sociology.<ref>''[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]]'': [http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/12/09/um/m-01104964.htm Eric Calcagno, un intelectual con fuertes raíces en Francia], 9 December 2005.</ref>

==Career==
Calcagno worked as an economics consultant and journalist, including for ''[[Le Monde Diplomatique]]'' ([[Southern Cone]] Edition), ''[[Diario Hoy]]'' of La Plata, the magazines ''[[Veintitrés]]'' and ''Veintitrés Internacional'' and [[Terra Networks|Terra]]. With his father he co-wrote two books on politics and economics: ''Para entender la política, entre la ilusión de lo óptimo y la realidad de lo pésimo'' (English translation of title: How to understand politics.  Between an utopian illusion and the worst reality), Editorial Norma (Buenos Aires, 1999)  and ''La deuda externa explicada a todos (los que tienen que pagarla)'' (English translation of title: Foreign Debt Explained to Those Who Have to Pay it), Editorial Catálogos (Buenos Aires, 2000).<ref>[[Terra Networks|Terra]]: [https://www.terra.com.ar/canales/politica/22/22171.html Quién es Eric Calcagno] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605120253/https://www.terra.com.ar/canales/politica/22/22171.html |date=June 5, 2012 }}. Accessed 28 April 2008.</ref>

He published ''Terra incógnita, crónica de la caída de la convertibilidad''<ref>{{cite book|author=Eric Calcagno|title=Terra incognita: crónica virtual sobre la caída de la convertibilidad : lo escrito entonces y lo sucedido después|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=21GzAAAAIAAJ|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Catálogos|isbn=978-950-895-202-8}}</ref> (English translation of title: Terrae Incognita: a chronicle of the fall of the dollar peg of the Argentine peso), a chronicle of the [[1998–2002 Argentine great depression]], in 2005. He was known as a critic of neoliberal economics and the [[Washington Consensus]]. He teamed up with his father to teach economics at the [[National University of Lanús]], [[Buenos Aires]] and taught a range of other universities, including as Director of the Centre of Studies of National Economic Thought (CEPEN) at the [[University of Buenos Aires]].<ref>[http://www.mrecic.gov.ar/portal/prensa/comunicado.php?buscar=1948&fecha=17/01/2006&numero=026/06&titulo=Nuevo%20embajador%20argentino%20en%20Francia Government Press Release 026/06 'Nuevo embajador argentino en Francia'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207004905/http://www.mrecic.gov.ar/portal/prensa/comunicado.php?buscar=1948&fecha=17%2F01%2F2006&numero=026%2F06&titulo=Nuevo%20embajador%20argentino%20en%20Francia |date=2012-02-07 }}, 17 January 2006.</ref>

==Political career==
In 2005, Calcagno was a reserve member on the [[Front for Victory]] list for the Senate for [[Buenos Aires Province]]. The list was headed by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and was successful in the October elections, winning the maximum two places. Shortly after the election, in December 2005, Calcagno was named Ambassador to France, after [[Rafael Bielsa]] had accepted that position only to reject it a day later in public.<ref>''[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]]'': [http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/12/10/elpais/p-01801.htm Un sociólogo educado en París es el nuevo embajador en Francia], 10 December 2005.</ref> In 2007, upon the election of Fernández de Kirchner as President of Argentina, Calcagno replaced her in the Senate. However, within ten days he was granted a [[leave of absence]] to take up the President's offer of a position in government. He became subsecretary of Small and Medium Enterprises.<ref>''[[La Nación (Buenos Aires)|La Nación]]'': [http://www.lanacion.com.ar/991479 Polémica por los 6 meses de licencia para Eric Calcagno], 29 February 2008.</ref>

Calcagno's post at the Senate was left vacant until July 2008, when the tax farm issue arose. In March the government tried to introduce a new taxation system on agricultural exports. Nationwide mass protests were the result and the government eventually was forced to send the government's farm exports tax proposal to the Argentine Congress. Calcagno had to leave his office and return to the Senate in order to vote in favour of the government, as a close tie was due.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.perfil.com/contenidos/2008/07/06/noticia_0040.html |title=El todoterreno K Eric Calcagno volverá a su banca en el Senado por una semana y ya hay críticas opositoras - Política - Perfil.com |website=www.perfil.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905130719/http://www.perfil.com/contenidos/2008/07/06/noticia_0040.html |archive-date=2008-09-05}}</ref> This vote was eventually decided by Vice-president [[Julio Cobos]], who rejected the farm exports tax bill. Calcagno remained in the Senate, where he took over the chairmanship of the Infrastructure, Transport and Housing committee soon afterwards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1041098 |title=Aerolíneas: El PJ objeta el proyecto - lanacion.com |website=www.lanacion.com.ar |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819215247/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1041098 |archive-date=2008-08-19}}</ref>

He was elected [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|National Deputy]] for the [[Buenos Aires Province]] in 2011 from the [[Front for Victory]] party. His term expired on 10 December 2015.

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== External links ==

*{{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20100721120441/http://e-calcagno.com.ar/ Official site of Eric Calcagno]

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