President Alvaro Uribe Velez Name Carolina Barco | Succeeded by Gabriel Silva Lujan President Alvaro Uribe Velez Parents Virgilio Barco Vargas | |
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Preceded by Guillermo Fernandez de Soto Similar People Virgilio Barco Isakson, Virgilio Barco Vargas, Maria Consuelo Araujo | ||
Succeeded by Maria Consuelo Araujo Preceded by Andres Pastrana Arango | ||
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María Carolina Barco Isakson (born 1951) is a Colombian-American diplomat, who has served as Ambassador of Colombia to the United States from 2006 to 2010, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia from 2002 to 2007.
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- Womens Economic Empowerment On the Sidelines with Ambassador Carolina Barco
- Early years
- Career
- Family
- References
Women's Economic Empowerment: On the Sidelines with Ambassador Carolina Barco
Early years
Barco was born in Boston, Massachusetts, while her father, Virgilio Barco Vargas, was studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1973 Barco received her BA in Sociology and Economics from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. During her time at Wellesley she spent a year studying abroad at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. In 1975 she received a master's degree in city planning from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 1984 she received an MBA at the Instituto de Empresas in Madrid, Spain. From 1990 to 1991 she was a visiting scholar at her father's alma mater, MIT.
Career
Barco was appointed Foreign Minister of Colombia by President Álvaro Uribe in August 2002 and remained in that post until July 2006, when she was appointed Ambassador to the United States, replacing former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana Arango in Washington, D.C..
Family
Carolina Barco Isakson is the daughter of Virgilio Barco Vargas, a former Mayor, Senator, Ambassador, President of Colombia and Director to the World Bank Board, and Carolina Isakson Proctor. Carolina's brother, Virgilio Barco Isakson, founded one of Colombia's largest gay civil rights NGO's in Colombia called Colombia Diversa.
Carolina Barco was married to Mauricio Botero Caicedo, with whom she had three daughters.