Rafael Pardo Rueda


Rafael Pardo Rueda is a Colombian politician. A Liberal party politician and economist, he has previously served as the 1st Minister of Labour of Colombia serving in the Administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, Minister of [National Defence of Colombia|Minister of National Defence], and was elected Senator of Colombia for the 2002-2006 legislative period.

Career

A 1994-1995 Fellow at the Weatherhead [Centre for International Affairs] of Harvard [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was the candidate of the Liberal Party for the 2010 Presidential Election.
On 31 October 2011, President Juan Manuel [Santos Calderón] announced the designation of Pardo as the head of the newly created Ministry of Labour, established as part of a wider Ministerial Cabinet Reform in order to fulfil some of his 2010 campaign promises.
In March 2014, President Santos appointed Minister Pardo as acting Mayor of Bogotá, a position he held until April of that year. Pardo is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank The Inter-American Dialogue.

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