Carolina Barco

Carolina Barco Isakson (born 1951Fact|date=February 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is Colombia's ambassador to the United States. She resides in the Thomas T. Gaff House and works at the Colombian embassy in Washington, D.C.

Early years

Barco was born in Boston, Massachusetts, while her father, Virgilio Barco Vargas, was studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1973 Barco received her BA in Sociology and Economics from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. During her time at Wellesley she spent a year studying abroad at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. In 1975 she received a masters degree in city planning from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 1984 she received an MBA at the Instituto de Empresas in Madrid, Spain. From 1990 to 1991 she was a visiting scholar at her father's alma mater, MIT.

Career

Barco was appointed Foreign Minister of Colombia by President Alvaro Uribe in August 2002 and remained in that post until July 2006, when she was appointed Ambassador to the United States, replacing former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana Arango in Washington.

Family

Carolina Barco Isakson is the daughter of Virgilio Barco Vargas, a former Mayor, Senator, Ambassador, President of Colombia and Director to the World Bank Board, and Carolina Isackson Proctor. Carolina's brother, Virgilio Barco Isackson, founded one of Colombia's largest gay civil rights NGO's in Colombia called Colombia Diversa.

Carolina Barco was married to Mauricio Botero Caicedo, with whom she had three daughters.

External links

* [http://www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Colombia.html The Washington Diplomat Newspaper - Ambassador profile ]
*http://www.colombiaemb.org/opencms/opencms/
*http://www.colombiadiversa.org/