Francisco Contreras is the youngest congressman at the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala acting as a member of the Legislative and Constitutional Committee, supporting the initiatives of Technology, Economics, Transparence, Security and Justice. Vice President by Central America of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas (COPA). Alumni of the FAES foundation program in Spain and the Strategy and Defense Policy (SDP) course at the National Defense University (NDU) at Washington, DC. Founder in 2003 of a business center concept in Guatemala for a better and efficient way to do business that involves more than 100 hundred small and medium enterprises (PYMES).  Co-Founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Association (AJE) and of the Franchise Guatemalan Association (AGF). Earned a B.S. in Economics with Financial Application at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 2002. Worked at the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas, Texas in 2000 and in 1999 attended University College, Oxford.