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Ana Carolina Cosse Garrido (born December 25, 1962 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan engineer and politician of the Broad Front. She served as Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining from 2015 to 2019, during the second administration of Tabaré Vázquez. She currently serves as Senator of the Republic, since 15 February 2020.

On January 29 2020, the Departmental Plenary of the Broad Front in Montevideo proclaimed Cosse, Daniel Martínez and Álvaro Villar as candidate for Intendant of Montevideo for the municipal election of that year.

In 2018, she began to be seen as a possible candidate for the presidency or vice-presidency for the 2019 election. On November 10, 2018, the Plenary of the Broad Front proclaimed Cosse, Daniel Martínez, Óscar Andrade and Mario Bergara as pre-candidates for the 2019 presidential primaries. Of the four pre-candidates for the Presidency of the Republic by the Broad Front for the 2019 primary elections, Cosse obtained 27% of the votes, being the second most voted, after Daniel Martínez.

In May 2010, President José Mujica appointed her as president of ANTEL (National Administration of Telecommunications), a position she held until 2015. In December 2014, after confirming the election of Tabaré Vázquez for a new presidential term, it was announced that Cosse was going to be the head of the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Energy, position she assumed on March 2, 2015.

Her activity in politics began in 2008, when she assumed the position of director of the Information Technology Division of the Departmental Government of Montevideo. Among the tasks performed in office, the direction of technological implementation of the city's Metropolitan Transportation System (STM) stands out.

She was born in Montevideo, on December 25, 1961, as the daughter of Zulma Garrido and Villanueva Cosse, a history teacher and an actor, respectively. In 1991, Cosse graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of the Republic in Montevideo, with a degree in electrical engineering. In 2009, at the same study center, he obtained a master's degree in Mathematical Engineering.