Rafael Pardo Rueda (original) (raw)

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Colombian politician

Rafael Pardo Rueda
Pardo in 2016
Minister of Labour
In office10 November 2011 – 7 August 2018
President Juan Manuel Santos
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Alicia Arango
Acting Mayor of Bogotá
In office19 March 2014 – 21 April 2014
President Juan Manuel Santos
Preceded by Gustavo Petro
Succeeded by María Mercedes Maldonado
Senator of Colombia
In office20 July 2002 – 20 July 2006
Minister of National Defence
In office7 August 1991 – 7 August 1994
President César Gaviria
Preceded by Oscar Botero Restrepo
Succeeded by Fernando Botero Zea
Personal details
Born (1953-11-26) 26 November 1953 (age 71)Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Political party Liberal
Spouse Claudia de Francisco (1980-present)
Children Laura Pardo de FranciscoCristina Pardo de FranciscoAlejandra Pardo de Francisco
Alma mater University of the Andes (BA, 1977)
Profession Economist
Website www.rafaelpardo.com

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pardo and the second or maternal family name is Rueda.

Rafael Pardo Rueda (born 26 November 1953) is a Colombian politician. A Liberal party politician and economist, he has previously served as the 1st Minister of Labour of Colombia serving in the Administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, Minister of National Defence, and was elected Senator of Colombia for the 2002-2006 legislative period.

A 1994-1995 Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]

He was the candidate of the Liberal Party for the 2010 Presidential Election.

On 31 October 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Pardo as the head of the newly created Ministry of Labour, established as part of a wider Ministerial Cabinet Reform in order to fulfil some of his 2010 campaign promises.[2]

In March 2014, President Santos appointed Minister Pardo as acting Mayor of Bogotá, a position he held until April of that year.[3][4] Pardo is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank The Inter-American Dialogue.[5]

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  1. ^ "WCFIA Fellows, Listed By Class Year" (PDF). Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. 2009. p. 45. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. ^ Santos Caderón, Juan Manuel (2011-10-31). "Declaración del Presidente Juan Manuel Santos al anunciar la designación de Rafael Pardo como Ministro de Trabajo" [Declaration of President Juan Manuel Santos at the announcement of the designation of Rafael Pardo as Minister of Labour] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Press Office of the President of Colombia (SIG). Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  3. ^ "Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro removed by president". BBC News. 19 March 2014.
  4. ^ "María Mercedes Maldonado, alcaldesa (e) de Bogotá". Semana (in Spanish). Bogotá. 21 April 2014. ISSN 0124-5473. OCLC 7475329. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Inter-American Dialogue | Rafael Pardo". www.thedialogue.org. Retrieved 2017-04-19.