Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar | |
Order: | 10th |
Office: | Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia |
Term Start: | 7 August 2010 |
Term End: | 2 June 2013 |
President: | Juan Manuel Santos Calderón |
Predecessor: | Andrés Fernández Acosta |
Successor: | Francisco Estupiñán Heredia |
Order2: | 20th |
Ambassador From2: | Colombia |
Country2: | France |
Term Start2: | 11 December 2000 |
Term End2: | 17 November 2001 |
Predecessor2: | Adolfo Carvajal Quelquejeu |
Successor2: | Marta Lucía Ramírez Blanco |
President2: | Andrés Pastrana Arango |
Order3: | 63rd |
Office3: | Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia |
Term Start3: | 7 August 1998 |
Term End3: | 7 August 2000 |
President3: | Andrés Pastrana Arango |
Predecessor3: | Antonio José Urdinola Uribe |
Successor3: | Juan Manuel Santos Calderón |
Office4: | Senator of Colombia |
Term Start4: | 20 July 1994 |
Term End4: | 20 July 1998 |
Order5: | 17th |
Office5: | Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia |
Term Start5: | 13 November 1991 |
Term End5: | 5 July 1992 |
President5: | César Gaviria Trujillo |
Predecessor5: | Luis Fernando Vergara Munárriz |
Successor5: | Guido Alberto Nule Amín |
Birth Date: | 19 October 1946 |
Birth Place: | Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
Nationality: | Colombian |
Party: | Conservative |
Spouse: | María Teresa Herrán |
Children: | Ana María Restrepo Herrán Camilo Restrepo Herrán Alberto Restrepo Herrán |
Alma Mater: | Pontifical Xavierian University University of Paris (Ph.D.) |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar (born 19 October 1946)[1] was the 10th Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia, serving in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. A veteran politician, he also served as the 63rd Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia,[2] the 17th Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia, the 20th Ambassador of Colombia to France,[3] and as Senator of Colombia. A lifelong member of the Conservative Party, he tried to run for the Conservative presidential nomination in 1998, losing in the primaries, and 2002, where he won the primaries but withdrew before the election.[1] [4]