Order: | 34th |
Ambassador From: | Colombia |
Country: | United States |
Predecessor: | Gabriel Silva Luján |
Successor: | Luis Carlos Villegas |
President: | Juan Manuel Santos Calderón |
Birth Date: | 30 August 1949 |
Birth Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
Nationality: | Colombian |
Spouse: | Leonor Restrepo |
Residence: | Thomas T. Gaff House Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Education: | University of the Andes |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Carlos Alfredo Urrutia Valenzuela (born 30 August 1949) was the 34th Ambassador of Colombia to the United States.[1]
Born on 30 August 1949 in Bogotá, Colombia, to Carlos Urrutia Holguín and María Teresa Valenzuela Vega,[2] Urrutia is the grandson of Francisco José Urrutia Olano and the great-grandson of Francisco de Paula Urrutia Ordóñez. Urrutia attended law school at the University of the Andes, becoming a partner in 1981 and managing partner since 1999 at Brigard & Urrutia Abogados. He is an Associate Member of the American Bar Association, a Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and has been a member of the International Bar Association since 1999.[3]
Urrutia was appointed Ambassador of Colombia to the United States on 5 September 2012.[4]