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Federico Renjifo Vélez

Federico Alonso Renjifo Vélez
25th Colombia Ambassador to France
Assumed office
5 November 2013
President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by Gustavo Adolfo Carvajal Sinisterra
30th Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia
In office
3 September 2012 – 13 September 2013
President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María
Succeeded by Amilkar Acosta Medina
10th Minister of the Interior of Colombia
In office
17 May 2012 – 3 September 2012
President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by Germán Vargas Lleras
Director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of Colombia
In office
8 September 2011 – 17 May 2012
President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno
Succeeded by Juan Mesa Zuleta
Personal details
Born Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Nationality Colombian
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Catalina Crane Arango
(-present)
Alma mater Pontifical Xavierian University (JD, 1981)
Profession Lawyer, Economist
Religion Roman Catholic

Federico Alonso Renjifo Vélez is the 25th Ambassador of Colombia to France dually accredited as Non-Resident Ambassador of Colombia to Algeria and Monaco. A Colombian lawyer and economist, he also served as the 30th Minister of Mines and Energy, and 10th Minister of the Interior.

Federico Alonso was born in Cali, Valle del Cauca; the eldest of two sons of Marino Renjifo Salcedo and Amparo Vélez Hoyos; his younger brother is named Alejandro. He attended the Colegio Berchmans of Cali where he graduated in 1971. He went on to study at the Pontifical Xavierian University in Bogotá where he ultimately received his Doctorate of Laws and Socioeconomics with his co-authored doctoral thesis Ley Marco in 1981.

He is married to Catalina Crane Arango who is serving as High Presidential Advisor for Public and Private Management.

On 1 September 2011 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Renjifo to succeed Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno as General Secretary to the President as the new Director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic Renjifo, who at the time was working as President of the Fiduciaries Association since 2002, was sworn in on 8 September 2011.

On 25 April 2012 President Santos designated Renjifo to succeed Germán Vargas Lleras in the Ministry of the Interior; he was later sworn in as Minister of the Interior on 17 May 2012 at an official ceremony at the Palace of Nariño.


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