Fernando Carrillo Flórez
Fernando Carrillo Flórez 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, he then went on to College at the Pontifical Xavierian University from where graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Economics and a Juris Doctor; his thesis, Sector Financiero y Delincuencia Económica, co-authored with Jorge Pinzon Sanchez, was published by Editorial Temis Librería. Carrillo pursued further studies in the United States attending Harvard Law School where he earned a Master of Laws in 1987, and returned in the 90's earning a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1994.Right out off college Carrillo began teaching at his alma mater as Professor of Constitutional Law; he also been Professor of Public Finance at Our Lady of the Rosary University, and the University of La Sabana; Professor of Commercial Law at the University of the Andes, Saint Thomas Aquinas University, and ICESI University; and visiting scholar at various other institutions including Sciences Po, 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.
Political career
Constituent Assembly
On 7 August 1990, the newly inaugurated President of Colombia, César Gaviria Trujillo, appointed Carrillo as Presidential Adviser on Constituent Assembly Matters. Because of constitutional restrictions on sitting officials, Carrillo resigned his post to run for a seat in the Constituent Assembly, 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. 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.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.In 1994, he joined the Inter-American Development Bank. 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.