Rafael Pardo Rueda Explained

Rafael Pardo Rueda
Office:Minister of Labour
Term Start:10 November 2011
Term End:7 August 2018
President:Juan Manuel Santos
Predecessor:Position established
Successor:Alicia Arango
Office2:Acting Mayor of Bogotá
Term Start2:19 March 2014
Term End2:21 April 2014
Predecessor2:Gustavo Petro
President2:Juan Manuel Santos
Office3:Senator of Colombia
Term Start3:20 July 2002
Term End3:20 July 2006
Office4:Minister of National Defence
Term Start4:7 August 1991
Term End4:7 August 1994
Predecessor4:Oscar Botero Restrepo
Successor4:Fernando Botero Zea
President4:César Gaviria
Birth Date:26 November 1953
Birth Place:Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Nationality:Colombian
Party:Liberal
Spouse:Claudia de Francisco (1980-present)
Children:Laura Pardo de Francisco
Cristina Pardo de Francisco
Alejandra Pardo de Francisco
Alma Mater:University of the Andes (BA, 1977)
Profession:Economist

Rafael Pardo Rueda (born 26 November 1953) is a Colombian politician. A Liberal party politician and economist, he has previously served as the 1st Minister of Labour of Colombia serving in the Administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, Minister of National Defence, and was elected Senator of Colombia for the 2002-2006 legislative period.

Career

A 1994-1995 Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]

He was the candidate of the Liberal Party for the 2010 Presidential Election.

On 31 October 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Pardo as the head of the newly created Ministry of Labour, established as part of a wider Ministerial Cabinet Reform in order to fulfil some of his 2010 campaign promises.[2]

In March 2014, President Santos appointed Minister Pardo as acting Mayor of Bogotá, a position he held until April of that year.[3] [4] Pardo is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank The Inter-American Dialogue.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: WCFIA Fellows, Listed By Class Year . . 2011-11-01 . 45 . 2009 .
  2. Web site: Juan Manuel . Santos Caderón . Juan Manuel Santos . Declaración del Presidente Juan Manuel Santos al anunciar la designación de Rafael Pardo como Ministro de Trabajo . Declaration of President Juan Manuel Santos at the announcement of the designation of Rafael Pardo as Minister of Labour . Bogotá . 2011-11-01 . 2011-10-31 . Spanish . Colombia, Press Office of the President of Colombia (SIG) .
  3. Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro removed by president . . 19 March 2014 .
  4. María Mercedes Maldonado, alcaldesa (e) de Bogotá . . Bogotá. 21 April 2014 . 22 April 2014 . Spanish . 0124-5473 . 7475329.
  5. Web site: Inter-American Dialogue Rafael Pardo. www.thedialogue.org. 2017-04-19.