Jorge Nieto Montesinos was born on October 29, 1951, in
Arequipa. He is the son of Walter Nieto Miranda and Carmen Montesinos Hartley, and the nephew of Alfonso Montesinos y Montesinos, Adela Montesinos y Montesinos, and
Vladimiro Montesinos, a former presidential advisor to
Alberto Fujimori. Due to his father's military service, he completed his primary and secondary education in various public schools across the country, finishing at the Colegio Nacional de la Independencia Americana in
Arequipa. He studied Law and Sociology at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (1974–1978), earning a bachelor's degree. He later obtained a master's degree in Political Science from
FLACSO (1982–1984) and pursued doctoral studies in Social Sciences at
El Colegio de México (1988–1991). == References ==