Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María Politician

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.

Personal facts

Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María
Alias (AKA)Cárdenas Santamaría Mauricio; Cárdenas Mauricio
Birth dateJune 09, 1962
Birth place
Colombia , Antioquia Department , Medellín
Nationality
Colombian people
Religion
Catholic Church
Education
Master of Arts
University of California Berkeley
University of Los Andes (Colombia)
Profession
Economist

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Office holder

office
Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia
Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia
Minister of Transport of Colombia
Minister of Economic Development of Colombia
Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia
party
Colombian Conservative Party
president
successor
Federico Renjifo Vélez

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External resources

  1. http://www.brookings.edu/topics/latin-america.aspx
  2. http://www.cardenasmauricio.com