Rafael Pardo Rueda

Rafael Pardo Rueda
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Pardo in 2012.
1st Minister of Labour of Colombia
In office
10 November 2011 – 7 August 2018
PresidentJuan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded byOffice created
Succeeded byAlicia Arango
Acting Mayor of Bogotá
In office
19 March 2014 – 21 April 2014
PresidentJuan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded byGustavo Petro Urrego
Succeeded byMaría Mercedes Maldonado Copello
Senator of Colombia
In office
20 July 2002 – 20 July 2006
Minister of National Defence of Colombia
In office
7 August 1991 – 7 August 1994
PresidentCésar Gaviria Trujillo
Preceded byOscar Botero Restrepo
Succeeded byFernando Botero Zea
Personal details
Born (1953-11-26) 26 November 1953 (age 69)
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Political partyLiberal
SpouseClaudia de Francisco Zambrano (1980-present)
ChildrenLaura Pardo de Francisco
Cristina Pardo de Francisco
Alejandra Pardo de Francisco
Alma materUniversity of the Andes (BA, 1977)
ProfessionEconomist
Websitewww.rafaelpardo.com

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.

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.

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

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