Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María

Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María
Dr. Cárdenas at the World Economic Forum in 2010.
29th Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 September 2011
President	Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by	Carlos Rodado Noriega
Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia
In office 13 August 1999 – 27 August 2000
President	Andrés Pastrana Arango
Preceded by	Jaime Ruíz Llano
Succeeded by	Juan Carlos Echeverry Garzón
8th Minister of Transport of Colombia
In office 7 August 1998 – 13 August 1999
President	Andrés Pastrana Arango
Preceded by	Rodrigo Marín Bernal
Succeeded by	Gustavo Canal Mora
4th Minister of Economic Development of Colombia
In office 17 January 1994 – 7 August 1994
President	César Gaviria Trujillo
Preceded by	Luis Alberto Moreno Mejía
Succeeded by	Rodrigo Marín Bernal
Personal details
Born	9 June 1962 (1962-06-09) (age 49) Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Cristina Fernández Mejía (1998-present)
Relations	Patricia Eugenia Cárdenas Santa María (sister)
Children	Isabella Cárdenas Fernández Andrea Cárdenas Fernández
Alma mater	University of the Andes (BA, 1985; MA, 1987) University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1991)
Profession	Economist
Religion	Roman Catholic
Website	cardenasmauricio.com

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Cárdenas and the second or maternal family name is Santa María.

Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María (born 9 June 1962)^[1] is 29th and current Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia, serving in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. An economist and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, he is the Director of the Latin America Initiative and an expert on Global Economy and Development, and Foreign Policy.^[2] For the Government of Colombia, he has also served as the 4th Minister of Economic Development, the 8th Minister of Transport, and former Director of the National Planning Department, and in the private sector has served as 11th and 9th Director of the Higher Education and Development Foundation (Fedesarrollo),^[3] as the 7th President Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), ^[4] as former President of Titularizadora Colombiana S.A., and as General Manager of Empresa de Energía de Bogotá S.A. ESP.

Minister of Mines and Energy

On 20 September 2011 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón designated Cárdenas to succeed Carlos Rodado Noriega as Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia.^[5] He was sworn in as the 29th Minister of Mines and Energy on 26 September.^[6]

Personal life

Born to Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez, former President of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, and his wife Cecilia Santa María Botero on 9 June 1962 in Medellín, Antioquia;^[7] the third of four children, his other siblings are: Patricia Eugenia, Jorge Hernán, and Eduardo.^[7][8] On 10 January 1998 he married Cristina Fernández Mejía in a Catholic wedding at the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Church in Cartagena de Indias;^[9] together they have two daughters: Isabella and Andrea.^[7]

References

1. ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (in Spanish). Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María. p. 3. Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:xUPKwBsipykJ:cloud1.gdnet.org/cms.php%3Fid%3Dcv_download%26researcher_id%3D13071+%22Mauricio+Cardenas%22+1962&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShe0QSus9wQQO0A8WE7qEol6s8E-m1IBW0bt1UsOish6UANsMGLawCrOygPUWmB9fJPPIXc1hyFM4D0uOT_Yg3oWpRdRcCYx0-Rlj3HIj9DGaVGskcuoXBHTof4qHklz9mf4_yi&sig=AHIEtbQxHHigAoKaK1jYTWfzSPozad0ASw. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
2. ^ "Mauricio Cárdenas" (in English). Brookings Institution. http://www.brookings.edu/experts/cardenasm.aspx. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
3. ^ "Ex-Directores [Former Directors]". Higher Education and Development Foundation (Fedesarrollo). http://www.fedesarrollo.org.co/contenido/articulo.asp?chapter=35&article=56. 
4. ^ "Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaria: President 2008-2009" (in English). Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). http://www.lacea.org/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&phpMyAdmin=b883a10db6c19d415348047740f5c4b0&phpMyAdmin=f18f79e76e8f09c4b5c658d1db20ad3f. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
5. ^ "Presidente Santos designó a Mauricio Cárdenas como Ministro de Minas y Energía [President Santos designated Mauricio Cárdenas Minister of Mines and Energy]" (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Press Office of the President of Colombia (SIG). 2011-09-20. http://wsp.presidencia.gov.co/Prensa/2011/Septiembre/Paginas/20110920_02.aspx. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
6. ^ "Presidente Santos posesionó a Mauricio Cárdenas como Ministro de Minas y Energía [President Santos Sworn In Mauricio Cárdenas as Minister of Mines and Energy]" (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Press Office of the President of Colombia (SIG). 2011-09-26. http://wsp.presidencia.gov.co/Prensa/2011/Septiembre/Paginas/20110926_02.aspx. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
7. ^ ^{a b c} Gallo Martínez, Luis Álvaro (2005-01-05). "Don Marcelino Restrepo y Restrepo: Su Vida y Su Descendencia [Don Marcelino Restrepo y Restrepo: His Life and His Offspring]" (in Spanish). Asociación Colombiana Para el Estudio de las Geneologías. http://genealogias.tallerdigital.net/pdfs/Marcel.pdf. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
8. ^ Mosquera y Arboleda, Tomás Cipriano de; Herrán, Pedro Alcántara (1972) (in Spanish). Archivo Epistolar del General Mosquera: Correspondencia con el General Pedro Alcántara Herrán. 1827-1840 [Epistolary Archive of General Mosquera: Correspondence with General Pedro Alcántara Herrán. 1827-1840]. Bogotá: Editorial Kelly. p. 61. OCLC 848913. LCCN 67-108183. http://books.google.com/books?id=PFYLAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 2011-09-26. 
9. ^ "Boda Cárdenas Santa María-Fernández Mejía [Cárdenas Santa María-Fernández Mejía Wedding]" (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 1998-01-14. http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-790058. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 

External links

• Cárrdenas's work on the Latin America at the Brookings Institution

Persondata
Name	Cárdenas Santa María, Mauricio
Alternative names	Cárdenas Santamaría, Mauricio; Cárdenas, Mauricio
Short description	Colombian economist
Date of birth	9 June 1962
Place of birth	Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Date of death
Place of death