Fernando Carrillo Flórez

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Fernando Carrillo Flórez
César Gaviria Trujillo
Preceded byJaime Giraldo Ángel
Personal details
Born(1963-05-13)13 May 1963
Harvard University
(LLM, 1987; MPA, 1994)
ProfessionLawyer, Economist
In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Carrillo and the second or maternal family name is Flórez.

Fernando Carrillo Flórez (born 13 May 1963) is a

Pontifical Xavierian University educated lawyer and economist, with postgraduate studies from Harvard University. He served as Colombia's 11th Minister of the Interior from 2012 to 2013, and 55th Minister of Justice
from 1991 to 1992.

Academic career

Carrillo attended the Cervantes Lyceum from where he graduated in 1978,

John F. Kennedy School of Government
in 1994.

Right out off college Carrillo began teaching at his

University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, American University, and the Charles III University of Madrid
.

On 13 September 2012 Carrillo was named

Corresponding Member of the Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence.[2]

Political career

Constituent Assembly

On 7 August 1990, the newly inaugurated

César Gaviria Trujillo, appointed Carrillo as Presidential Adviser on Constituent Assembly Matters.[3] Because of constitutional restrictions on sitting officials, Carrillo resigned his post to run for a seat in the Constituent Assembly,[4]
feat that he managed when the elections were held in December. On 5 February 1991 the National Constituent Assembly was convened with Carrillo as a member.

Ministry of Justice

On 6 August 1991 President Gaviria appointed Carrillo as Minister of Justice.[5] Carrillo, who at the time was serving as Assemblyman and Chairman of the Justice Committee of the Constituent Assembly, was replaced as Chairperson by Assemblywoman Martha Lucía Pinzón Galán.[6]

Inter-American Development Bank

After Carrillo resigned as Minister of Justice, he travelled to the United States to study at Harvard, this would mark the beginning of a 20-year hiatus from public service choosing to remain in the private sector in international circles, an absence that was felt among certain political sectors that wished his returns to the political scene.[7] In 1994, he joined the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He was the Chief Advisor to the State, Governance and Civil Society Division at the IDB headquarters in Washington, D.C. between 1994 and 2003; IDB's representative and spokesperson at the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States between 1996 and 2003; and Alternate Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank in Paris between 2003 and 2010.

National Legal Defence Agency

On 24 January 2012 during the inauguration of

Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Carrillo as Director of the National Legal Defence Agency,[8] a newly created executive agency ascribed to the Ministry of Justice and Law, and charged with coordinating, organizing, and structuring the country's legal defence, and whenever possible, avoid damages to the State's assets. Carrillo, who at the time was working as Head Representative of the IDB in Brazil, had worked for Santos in his presidential campaign as Head of the Presidential Transition Committee after the election.[9] On 15 March, President Santos sworn in Carrillo as the National Legal Defence Agency's 1st Director in a ceremony at the Palace of Nariño.[10]

Ministry of the Interior

On 31 August 2012, President Santos announced a reshuffle of his Cabinet, and as part of this changes Carrillo was named Minister of the Interior replacing Federico Renjifo Vélez who in turn had been moved to be Minister of Mines and Energy.;[11] Carrillo and five other new ministers were sworn in three days later on 3 September at a ceremony in the Palace of Nariño.[12]

Ambassadorship

The day after his resignation, President Santos announced the designation of Carrillo to succeed Orlando Sardi de Lima as Ambassador of Colombia to Spain.

Personal life

Fernando was born on 13 May 1963 in Bogotá, Colombia[13] to Rafael Carrillo Piñeros and Adelia Flórez.[14] He is married to Diana Cristina Serpa Preciado with whom he has two daughters, Laura and Natalia.[14]

Selected works

  • Binetti, Carlo; Carrillo Flórez, Fernando, eds. (2005). An Unequal Democracy? Seeing Latin America through European Eyes. Washington, D.C.:
    OCLC 613391925
    .
  • Carrillo Flórez, Fernando, ed. (2001). Democracia en Déficit: Gobernabilidad y Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe (in Spanish). Washington, D.C.:
    OCLC 491704946
    .
  • OCLC 39340158
    .
  • Carrillo Flórez, Fernando; Pinzón Sánchez, Jorge (1985). Sector Financiero y Delincuencia Eeconómica (in Spanish). Bogotá: Editorial Temis Librería.
    OCLC 14214345
    .

References

  1. ^ "Ex Alumnos Destacados" (in Spanish). Bogotá: Cervantes Lyceum. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Ministro Carrillo tomará posesión como miembro de la Academia Colombiana de Jurisprudencia" (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence. 13 September 2012. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  3. OCLC 28894254
    . Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  4. OCLC 28894254
    . Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  5. OCLC 28894254
    . Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  6. OCLC 28894254
    . Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  7. OCLC 7475329
    . Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  8. Colombia, Office of the President of
    . Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  9. OCLC 436626557. Archived from the original
    on 16 July 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  10. Colombia, Office of the President of
    . Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  11. Colombia, Office of the President of
    . 31 August 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  12. Colombia, Office of the President of
    . 3 September 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  13. OCLC 28894254
    . Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  14. ^ a b Carrillo Floréz, Fernando (13 September 2012). "Discurso de Posesión de Doctor Fernando Carrillo Floréz" (speech) (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence. Retrieved 14 April 2013.[permanent dead link]

Further reading

  • Carrillo Flórez, Fernando; Cortés González, Juan Carlos;
    OCLC 727711823
    .

External links
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