Juan Manuel Santos
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Juan Manuel Santos GColIH |
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| 32nd President of Colombia | |
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Assumed office 7 August 2010 |
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| Vice President |
Angelino Garzón Germán Vargas Lleras |
| Preceded by | Álvaro Uribe |
| Minister of National Defense | |
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In office 19 July 2006 – 18 May 2009 |
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| President | Álvaro Uribe |
| Preceded by | Camilo Ospina Bernal |
| Succeeded by | Freddy Padilla de León (Acting) |
| Minister of Finance and Public Credit | |
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In office 7 August 2000 – 7 August 2002 |
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| President | Andrés Pastrana Arango |
| Preceded by | Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar |
| Succeeded by | Roberto Junguito Bonnet |
| Minister of Foreign Trade | |
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In office 18 November 1991 – 7 August 1994 |
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| President | César Gaviria |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Mazuera Gómez |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón 10 August 1951 Bogotá, Colombia |
| Political party |
Liberal Party (Before 2005) Social Party of National Unity (2005–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Silvia Amaya Londoño (Divorced) María Clemencia Rodríguez Múnera (1987–present) |
| Children | Martín María Antonia Esteban |
| Residence | Casa de Nariño |
| Alma mater |
University of Kansas, Lawrence London School of Economics Harvard University Tufts University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Awards | Nobel Peace Prize (2016) |
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Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (Spanish: [xwan maˈnwel ˈsantos kaldeˈɾon]; born 10 August 1951), GColIH is the 32nd and current President of Colombia and sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
An economist by profession and a journalist by trade, Santos is a member of the wealthy and influential Santos family, who from 1913 to 2007 were the majority shareholders of the newspaper El Tiempo until its sale to Planeta DeAgostini in 2007. Shortly after graduating from the University of Kansas, he joined the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia as an economic advisor and delegate to the International Coffee Organization in London, where he also attended the London School of Economics. In 1981, he was appointed deputy director of El Tiempo newspaper, becoming its director two years later. Santos earned a mid-career/master's in public administration in 1981 from Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and was a 1988 Nieman Fellow for his award-winning work as a columnist and reporter. Santos was a Fulbright visiting fellow at Fletcher at Tufts University in 1981.
In 1991, he was appointed by President César Gaviria Trujillo as Colombia's first Minister of Foreign Trade. Santos worked in expanding international trade with Colombia, and worked in creating various agencies for this purpose including: Proexport, Bancoldex and Fiducoldex. In 2000, he was appointed by President Andrés Pastrana Arango as the 64th Minister of Finance and Public Credit.
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