Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard, better known simply as “PPK”, is a Peruvian economist, politician, and public administrator who is the current President of Peru in office since 2016.
Kuczynski was born at the Clínica Delgado in Lima, Peru, the son of Madeleine Godard, who was of Swiss-French descent, and Maxime Hans Kuczynski, a German Jewish immigrant of Polish descent who was born near Poznań, and was one of the earliest public health leaders in Peru. His parents, who were Jewish on his father’s side and Christian on his mother’s, fled Germany in 1933 to escape from Nazism.