Clara López Obregón

Clara Eugenia López Obregón
Lopez in 2011

Minister of Labour of Colombia
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 April 2016 (2016-04-25)
Appointed by	Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by	Luis Eduardo Garzón
Acting Mayor of Bogotá
In office 8 June 2011 (2011-06-08) – 1 January 2012 (2012-01-01)
Appointed by	Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by	Samuel Moreno Rojas
Succeeded by	Gustavo Petro Urrego
6th Auditor General of Colombia
In office 1 April 2003 (2003-04-01) – 1 April 2005 (2005-04-01)
Nominated by	Supreme Court of Justice
Appointed by	Council of State
Preceded by	César Augusto López Botero
Succeeded by	Piedad Amparo Zúñiga Quintero
Personal details
Born	(1950-04-12) 12 April 1950 (age 67) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Political party	Alternative Democratic Pole (2005—present)
Other political affiliations	New Liberalism (1984–1987) Patriotic Union (1987–2005)
Spouse(s)	Edmond Jacques Courtois Miller (1980–1983) Carlos Arturo Romero Jiménez (1985—present)
Alma mater	Harvard University (BEcon, 1972) University of Los Andes (LLB, 1996) University of Salamanca (LLD, 2002)
Profession	Economist, lawyer
Religion	Roman Catholic

Clara Eugenia López Obregón (born April 12, 1950) is a Colombian politician who is currently the Minister for Employment. She also served as Acting Mayor of Bogotá from 2011 to 2012. A Harvard-trained economist, she was the Alternative Democratic Pole's nominee for President of Colombia in the 2014 election.

López is also a University of Los Andes-trained lawyer with a doctorate from the University of Salamanca, and served as the 6th Auditor General of Colombia from 2003 to 2005.

López was born on 12 April 1950 in Bogotá, Colombia to Álvaro López Holguín (grandson of Alfonso López Pumarejo) and Cecilia Obregón Rocha. (cousin of painter Alejandro Obregón Roses) She attended Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogotá, but was later sent to live in McLean, Virginia in the United States, where she attended the Madeira School, a prestigious preparatory boarding school for girls. After graduating high school in 1968, she attended Harvard University where she became an active participant in the student movement opposed to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. She graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in June 1972.