Jonathan Menkos

{{short description|Guatemalan economist and politician (b. 1975)}}

{{family name hatnote|Menkos|Zeissig|lang=Spanish}}

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| name = Jonathan Menkos

| image = Retrato oficial de Jonathan Menkos, Deputado del Congreso (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Official portrait as member of Congress, 2024

| office = Minister of Public Finance

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| term_start = 19 January 2024

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|6|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = Guatemala City, Guatemala

| party = Semilla

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| alma_mater = Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Universidad de Valparaíso

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| website = https://jonathanmenkos.org

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| office1 = Member of the Congress of Guatemala

| termstart1 = 14 January 2024

| termend1 = 19 January 2024

| constituency1 = National List

| successor1 = Olga Isabel Villalta Pereira

| predecessor = Edwin Oswaldo Martínez Cameros

| president = Bernardo Arévalo

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Jonathan Kiril Thomas Menkos Zeissig (born 29 June 1975) is a Guatemalan economist, politician, writer, academic and analyst serving as Guatemala's Minister of Public Finance since January 19, 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-19 |title=Arévalo juramenta a Jonathan Menkos como Ministro de Finanzas |url=https://www.prensalibre.com/ahora/guatemala/politica/arevalo-juramenta-a-jonathan-menkos-como-ministro-de-finanzas/ |access-date=2024-01-20 |language=es-GT}}{{Cite web |date=2023-12-20 |title=Revelan nombres de algunas personas que integrarán el Gabinete de Bernardo Arévalo |url=https://www.prensalibre.com/guatemala/elecciones-generales-guatemala-2023/revelan-nombres-de-algunas-personas-que-integraran-el-gabinete-de-bernardo-arevalo/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |language=es-GT}} He previously served as president of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (ICEFI) starting September 2012.{{cite web|title=Semilla confirma a Jonathan Menkos como vicepresidenciable junto con Thelma Aldana|url=https://www.publinews.gt/gt/noticias/2019/03/05/jonathan-menkos-el-vicepresidenciable-de-semilla.html|website=Publinews|date=5 March 2019 |accessdate=5 March 2019|language=Spanish}}{{cite web|title=Thelma Aldana ya tendría candidato a vicepresidente|url=https://www.soy502.com/articulo/thelma-aldana-ya-tendria-candidato-vicepresidente-63338|website=Soy502|accessdate=5 March 2019|language=Spanish}}

On March 5, 2019, the Board of Directors of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies announced that Menkos requested a license to be absent from his duties as President of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies from March 1 to August 15, 2019. Hours later, the political party Movimiento Semilla announced that Menkos had been elected as its vice presidential candidate and running mate of ex-attorney general Thelma Aldana,{{cite web|title=Thelma Aldana y Jonathan Menkos son el binomio de Semilla|url=https://lahora.gt/thelma-aldana-y-jonathan-menkos-son-el-binomio-de-semilla/|website=La Hora|accessdate=5 March 2019|language=Spanish}}{{cite web|title=El vice de Thelma Aldana y por qué Semilla lo eligió a él|url=https://nomada.gt/pais/entender-la-politica/el-vice-de-thelma-aldana-y-por-que-semilla-lo-eligio-a-el/|website=Nómada|accessdate=5 March 2019|language=Spanish}} however Aldana was disqualified from the presidential race.{{Cite news |last=Cuffe |first=Sandra |date=15 May 2019 |title=Guatemala court rules popular anti-corruption crusader ineligible to run for president |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/guatemala-awaits-ruling-can-popular-anti-corruption-crusader-run-for-president/2019/05/14/8ec59356-7516-11e9-a7bf-c8a43b84ee31_story.html?noredirect=on |access-date=16 May 2019}}