| Mario Germán Iguarán Arana | |
| Ambassador From: | Colombia |
| Country: | Egypt |
| Term Start: | 27 June 2010 |
| Term End: | 2012 |
| Predecessor: | Guillermo Antonio Vanegas Sierra |
| President: | Juan Manuel Santos Calderón |
| Order2: | 5th |
| Office2: | Office of the Attorney General of ColombiaAttorney General of Colombia |
| Term Start2: | 1 August 2005 |
| Term End2: | 31 July 2009 |
| Nominator2: | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Predecessor2: | Luis Camilo Osorio Isaza |
| Successor2: | Guillermo Mendoza Diago |
| Order3: | 3rd |
| Office3: | Ministry of the Interior and JusticeDeputy Minister of Justice of Colombia |
| Term Start3: | 29 March 2004 |
| Term End3: | 1 August 2005 |
| Predecessor3: | Rafael Nieto Loaiza |
| Successor3: | Luis Hernando Angarita Figueredo |
| President3: | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Birth Date: | 8 June 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Nationality: | Colombian |
| Spouse: | Lucero Saavedra |
| Children: | Daniela Iguarán Saavedra David Iguarán Saavedra |
| Alma Mater: | Externado University (LLB, 1982) University of Bonn (LLM, 1990) |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
Mario Germán Iguarán Arana (born 8 June 1960)[1] is a Colombian lawyer and diplomat. He served as Ambassador of Colombia to Egypt between 2010 and 2012. Iguarán has also served as the 3rd Deputy Minister of Justice of Colombia, the 5th Attorney General of Colombia, and as Assistant Magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Colombia.
Iguarán received his Bachelor of Law from the Externado University of Colombia in 1982, and obtained a Master in Comparative Law from the University of Bonn in Germany in 1990, and has completed specializations in Penal Cassation from La Gran Colombia University in 2003, and in High State Administration from the Colombian Higher School of Public Administration in 1998.[2]
President Uribe offered Iguarán an ambassadorship to Switzerland following the end of his term as Attorney General, but the Swiss Government expressed their disapproval of said appointment, because Iguarán had investigated a Swiss national, Jean Pierre Gontard, for cooperation with the FARC-EP. Gontard, who was working with the permission of the Swiss and Colombian authorities as a mediator, was suspected to have gone beyond his role by aiding the FARC rebels and their associates in Europe and was called in for questioning, he however was also a close friend and associate of Swiss Federal Councillor Micheline Calmy-Rey who is also the Swiss Foreign Minister in charge of approving ambassadorial appointments to Switzerland; in the end Iguarán was dropped from consideration to this mission.[3]
Nonetheless, President Uribe offered him another diplomatic post, and this time the host nation permitted it; Iguarán was sworn in as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Colombia to the Republic of Egypt by Chancellor Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde on 2 March 2010 and travelling that same day to Egypt to assume his official duties,[4] and presented his letters of credence to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak on 27 June 2010.[5]
He served as ambassador until early 2012.[6]