Arturo Char Chaljub | |
Office: | President of the Senate |
Term Start: | 7 August 2020 |
Term End: | 7 August 2021 |
Predecessor: | Lidio García Turbay |
Successor: | Juan Diego Gómez |
Office1: | Senator of Colombia |
Term Start1: | 20 July 2014 |
Term Start2: | 20 July 2006 |
Term End2: | 20 July 2010 |
Birth Name: | Arturo Char Chaljub |
Birth Date: | 5 November 1967 |
Birth Place: | Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia |
Nationality: | Colombian |
Party: | Radical Change |
Spouse: | Alessandra Warner Sánchez |
Relations: | Fuad Char Abdala (father) Alejandro Char Chaljub (brother) |
Children: | Fuad Char Warner John Char Warner Adela Char Warner Arturo Char Warner Victoria Char Warner |
Alma Mater: | Kennesaw State University |
Profession: | Business Administrator |
Arturo Char Chaljub (born 5 November 1967)[1] is a former Senator of Colombia. Prior to his appointment he served as First Secretary of the Colombian Embassy in London.[2]
Arturo comes from a well established and influential, Syrian-Arab-Colombian family,[3] [4] [5] he is a son of Fuad Char Abdala, a Liberal Senator of Colombia and former Minister of Economic Development, and Ambassador of Colombia to Portugal, and his wife Adela Chaljub Char. His brother, Alejandro Char Chaljub, is the current Mayor of Barranquilla, and his cousin, David Char Navas, is also a senator. Many of his relatives, are shareholders of the Junior Barranquilla, the city's foremost soccer team.[6] He married Alessandra Warner Sánchez, whom he met while studying at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, United States. Together, they have five children, Fuad, John, Adela, Arturo and Victoria.