Andrea Petro

Andrea Petro Herrán is a Colombian economist and businesswoman. She is a member of the Petro family is the eldest daughter of the 37th Colombian president Gustavo Petro and the politician Luz Mary Herrán.

Early life, family and education

Andrea Petro Herrán was born in 1991 in Bogotá, D.C., to politician Luz Mary Herrán and Senator Gustavo Petro. She is the half-sister of Nicolás Petro, Sofía Petro and Antonella Petro, children from Gustavo Petro's first and third marriages. She lived her first 10 years in Brussels, Belgium. Like her siblings, she studied at the Lycée français Louis Pasteur, where she was bullied by her classmates for being the daughter of a former guerrilla fighter. After finishing high school, she moved to France.