Gustavo de Greiff Restrepo
| Gustavo de Greiff Restrepo | |
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| Colombia Ambassador to Mexico | |
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In office 1995–1998 |
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| President | Ernesto Samper Pizano |
| Preceded by | Ramiro Osorio Fonseca |
| Succeeded by | Diego Pardo Koppel |
| 1st Attorney General of Colombia | |
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In office August 1, 1992 – August 17, 1994 |
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| Nominated by | César Gaviria Trujillo |
| Deputy | Francisco José Sintura Varela |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento |
| 115th Rector of Our Lady of the Rosary University | |
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In office October 24, 1990 – April 1, 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Roberto Arias Pérez |
| Succeeded by | Guillermo Salah Zuleta |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 20, 1929 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Inés Lindo Koppel |
| Alma mater | Our Lady of the Rosary University |
| Profession | Lawyer, educator. |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Gustavo de Greiff Restrepo (born June 20, 1929) is a Colombian lawyer, educator and activist, who served as former Attorney General of Colombia and former Colombian Ambassador to Mexico. He is known for being an outspoken critic of the United States' War on Drugs in Colombia, and for being an advocate for drug liberalization policies.
De Greiff was born in Bogotá, D.C. on June 20, 1929 to Gustavo de Greiff Obregón and Cecilia Restrepo Piñeres. De Greiff is of Swedish descent from way of his father whose grandfather was Karl Sigismund Fromholt von Greiff, a Swedish engineer and geographer who moved to Colombia in 1825 and whose family had played an active role in the abdication of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. He is married to Inés Lindo Koppel, and has three children: Mónica, also a lawyer and ex-Minister of Justice; Natalia, an engineer and ex-General Manager of IBM in Colombia; and Camilo.
A lawyer graduated from Our Lady of the Rosary University, de Greiff returned to his alma mater, where he worked as Professor of Introduction to Law and Insurance Law at the Faculty of Law, later becoming Deputy Rector under Rector Roberto Arias Pérez, subsequently replacing him as the 115th Rector of the University on October 24, 1990 until April 1, 1991.
In addition to his tenure at El Rosario University, de Greiff worked as Professor of Civil Law at the National University of Colombia, and Professor at the Graduate Faculty of Political Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, while also participating as a conference speaker at different events in other participating centers of education.
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