Enrique Peñalosa Londoño
| Enrique Peñalosa Londoño | |
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| 798th Mayor of Bogotá | |
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Assumed office January 1, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Gustavo Petro |
| 793rd Mayor of Bogotá | |
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In office January 1, 1998 – December 31, 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Bromberg Silverstein |
| Succeeded by | Antanas Mockus |
| Personal details | |
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September 30, 1954 Washington, DC, United States |
| Political party | Cambio Radical |
| Other political affiliations |
Green Party Colombian Liberal Party |
| Alma mater | Duke University |
Enrique Peñalosa Londoño (born September 30, 1954, Washington, DC) is a Colombian politician. He was mayor of Bogotá from 1998 until 2001, and was re-elected in 2015 for the 2016–2019 term. He has also worked as a journalist and consultant on urban and transportation policy. In 2009, Peñalosa was elected President of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), a non-profit organization headquartered in New York. Peñalosa resigned from the ITDP board in 2015 upon his election.
In 2016, Colombian media made public that he fabricated a PhD and a master's degree in "public administration" and "government", which had been claimed in his books, public CV, and several public profiles. His master's degree is now in question due to the discovery that he never earned an equivalent title in Paris; the École Nationale d'Administration reported to Colombian journalists that the title obtained does not, under any circumstance, correspond to a master's degree
Peñalosa was born in Washington, DC to Cecilia Londoño and Enrique Peñalosa Camargo, former Minister of Agriculture at the UN and permanent ambassador for Colombia to the UN. During his childhood, Peñalosa studied at Gimnasio Campestre and the Colegio Refous. His family moved to the United States when he was 15 years old for his father's work as the ambassador of Colombia to the UN. He attended Duke University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Economics with a partial football scholarship. He used to claim that he had completed a doctorate in Public Administration in the University of Paris, and a master's degree in Government at the École nationale d'administration but multiple inquires to the universities and national archives have shown no results on the matter.
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