President Juan Manuel Santos President Juan Manuel Santos Succeeded by Federico Renjifo Vélez | Preceded by Juan Carlos Echeverry Preceded by Carlos Rodado Noriega President Andrés Pastrana Arango | |
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Party Colombian Conservative Party Parents Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez, Cecilia Santa María Botero Education University of California, Berkeley, University of Los Andes Similar Alejandro Gaviria Uribe, Germán Vargas Lleras, Juan Manuel Santos, Juan Carlos Echeverry, Simón Gaviria Muñoz Profiles | ||
Mauricio c rdenas santa mar a
Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María (born 9 June 1962) is the 69th and current Minister of Finance and Public Credit and former Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia, serving in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. Prior to this, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution. For the Government of Colombia, he has also served as the 4th Minister of Economic Development, the 6th Minister of Transport, and former Director of the National Planning Department, and in the private sector has served as 11th and 9th Director of the Higher Education and Development Foundation (Fedesarrollo), as the 7th President Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), as former President of Titularizadora Colombiana S.A., and as General Manager of Empresa de Energía de Bogotá S.A. ESP.
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Minister of Mines and Energy
On 20 September 2011 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón designated Cárdenas to succeed Juan Carlos Echeverry as Minister of Economy. He was sworn in as the 29th Minister of Mines and Energy on 26 September.
Personal life
Born to Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez, former President of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, and his wife Cecilia Santa María Botero on 9 June 1962 in Medellín, Antioquia; the third of four children, his other siblings are: Patricia Eugenia, Jorge Hernán, and Eduardo. On 10 January 1998 he married Cristina Fernández Mejía in a Catholic wedding at the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Church in Cartagena de Indias; together they have two daughters: Isabella and Andrea.
