Rafael Pardo Rueda
Pardo in 2012.
Minister of Labour
In office
10 November 2011 – 7 August 2018
PresidentJuan Manuel Santos
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byAlicia Arango
Acting Mayor of Bogotá
In office
19 March 2014 – 21 April 2014
PresidentJuan Manuel Santos
Preceded byGustavo Petro
Succeeded byMaría Mercedes Maldonado
Senator of Colombia
In office
20 July 2002 – 20 July 2006
Minister of National Defence
In office
7 August 1991 – 7 August 1994
PresidentCésar Gaviria
Preceded byOscar Botero Restrepo
Succeeded byFernando Botero Zea
Personal details
Born (1953-11-26) 26 November 1953
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Political partyLiberal
SpouseClaudia de Francisco Zambrano (1980-present)
ChildrenLaura Pardo de Francisco
Cristina Pardo de Francisco
Alejandra Pardo de Francisco
Alma materUniversity of the Andes (BA, 1977)
ProfessionEconomist
Websitewww.rafaelpardo.com

Rafael Pardo Rueda (born 26 November 1953) 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, 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.[1]

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.[2]

In March 2014, President Santos appointed Minister Pardo as acting Mayor of Bogotá, a position he held until April of that year.[3][4] Pardo is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank The Inter-American Dialogue.[5]

Works

Books

  • Pardo Rueda, Rafael (1996). De Primera Mano: Colombia 1986-1994, Entre Conflictos y Esperanzas [First Hand: Colombia 1986-1994, Between Conflicts and Hopes]. Literatura y ensayo (in Spanish). Bogotá: Norma Editorial. ISBN 978-958-04-3661-4. LCCN 97162511. OCLC 252955438.
  • Pardo Rueda, Rafael (1999). Nueva Seguridad Para América Latina [New Security For Latin America]. Textos (in Spanish). Vol. 29. Bogotá: Friedrich Ebert Foundation of Colombia: CEREC. ISBN 978-958-9061-99-2. LCCN 00334863. OCLC 45698956.
  • Pardo Rueda, Rafael (2001). El Siglo Pasado [The Last Century] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colpatriañ CEREC. ISBN 978-958-8101-06-4. LCCN 2002393043. OCLC 48969250.
  • Pardo Rueda, Rafael (2004). La Historia de las Guerras [History of Wars] (in Spanish). Bogotá: B. Colombia. ISBN 978-958-97405-5-2. LCCN 2005420183. OCLC 60841389.
  • Pardo Rueda, Rafael (2007). Fin del Paramilitarismo: ¿Es Posible Su Desmonte? [The End of Paramilitarism: Is Its Decline Possible?] (in Spanish). Barcelona: Ediciones B. ISBN 978-958-8294-18-6. LCCN 2008415004. OCLC 190863961.
  • Pardo Rueda, Rafael (2014). Entre dos poderes (Tomo I): De cómo la guerra fría moldeó a América Latina [Between two powers (Volume I): How the Cold War shaped Latin America] (in Spanish). Taurus Historia. ISBN 9789587587142.

Other

References

  1. ↑ "WCFIA Fellows, Listed By Class Year" (PDF). Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. 2009. p. 45. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. ↑ Santos Caderón, Juan Manuel (2011-10-31). "Declaración del Presidente Juan Manuel Santos al anunciar la designación de Rafael Pardo como Ministro de Trabajo" [Declaration of President Juan Manuel Santos at the announcement of the designation of Rafael Pardo as Minister of Labour] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Press Office of the President of Colombia (SIG). Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  3. ↑ "Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro removed by president". BBC News. 19 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "María Mercedes Maldonado, alcaldesa (e) de Bogotá". Semana (in Spanish). Bogotá. 21 April 2014. ISSN 0124-5473. OCLC 7475329. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "Inter-American Dialogue | Rafael Pardo". www.thedialogue.org. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
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