Alfredo Cristiani

Alfredo Félix Cristiani Burkard, popularly known as Alfredo Cristiani (born 22 November 1947) was President of El Salvador from 1989 to 1994. Born into a wealthy family in San Salvador, he was educated at the 'Escuela Americana' (American School) in San Salvador and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he graduated with a degree in Business Administration. He returned to El Salvador to work for the family business, which included pharmaceuticals, coffee, cotton and until July 2008 the Semillas Cristiani Burkard (SCB) the Central American Monsanto Company representative, leading corn seed company focused on hybrid corn production. He remained generally outside politics until the beginning of the 1980s when the armed conflict...