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Colombia Juan Manuel Santos has transitioned from influential politician and former President of Colombia to a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, recognized globally for his leadership in achieving peace.
Juan Manuel Santos was the President of Colombia, from 2010 to 2018, where he managed to significantly improve his country's social and economic indicators.
Juan Manuel Santos took office as Colombia's president in August 2010. The conservative politician had previously been Minister of Defense. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end.
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Summit to address regional corruption, implementation of Colombian peace deal, and investment in the Sustainable Development Goals.
In 2017, Juan Manuel Santos received the Great Negotiator Award for his efforts to help end Colombia's 52-year civil war by establishing a peace agreement.
In 1991 President Santos became Colombia's first Minister of Foreign Trade and in 2005 he co-founded the Social Party of National Unity. He was elected President of Colombia in 2010.
I conducted an online interview with Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018 and now a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.
Since 2010, President of Colombia. Founder and Chairman, Good Government Foundation. Journalist. Author of several books: The Third Way, An Alternative for...
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, born on August 10, 1951, in Bogotá, Colombia, hails from a prominent political family. His early education at Colegio San Carlos in Bogotá was followed by service in the Colombian Navy, graduating from the Admiral Padilla Naval Cadet School in 1969. He then pursued higher education in the United States at the University of Kansas, earning a Bachelor’s in Economics and Business Administration in 1973. Further academic pursuits led him to the London School of Economics, where he obtained a Master of Science in Economic Development in 1975, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University in 1981.
Santos’s career in public service began in 1991 when he was appointed Colombia’s first Minister of Foreign Trade by President César Gaviria Trujillo. He later served as Minister of Finance and Public Credit from 2000 to 2002 under President Andrés Pastrana Arango. A pivotal role in his career was as Minister of National Defense from 2006 to 2009 during President Álvaro Uribe Vélez’s administration, where he played a significant part in military campaigns against the FARC. In 2005, he co-founded the Social Party of National Unity.
His presidency, from 2010 to 2018, was largely defined by his determined pursuit of peace with the FARC guerrilla group. Despite a referendum narrowly rejecting the initial peace agreement in 2016, Santos persevered, signing a revised peace deal later that year. This persistent effort earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016. His tenure concluded with the FARC decommissioning its weapons in 2017, marking a significant end to a decades-long conflict.
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