NEW: Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, Coming to Brown
Friday, March 25, 2011
Brown University has just announced that Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia, will be appearing in Providence in early April.
Santos will deliver a Stephen A. Ogden ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Santos’ address, titled “Why People Should Give More than a Damn About Latin America,” will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, De Ciccio Family Auditorium. Doors close at 6 pm. This is a ticketed event open to the Brown community and members of the invited public.
Santos's background
Santos was elected 40th president of Colombia on June 20, 2010. Prior to his presidency, Santos served as Colombia’s national defense minister, where he was in charge of implementing the government’s democratic security policy. Santos previously was chief of the Colombian delegation before the International Coffee Organization (ICO) in London. He was Colombia’s first foreign trade minister and has served as the country’s finance minister.
Born in Bogota in August 1951, Santos was a cadet at the Naval Academy of Cartagena. He studied economics and business administration and earned master’s degrees at the London School of Economics, Harvard University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
He created the Good Government Foundation (Fundación Buen Gobierno) and founded the Partido de la U (Social Party of National Unity), currently Colombia’s largest political party, in 2005. He worked as a columnist and deputy director of the newspaper El Tiempo and was awarded the King of Spain Prize. He also served as president of the Freedom of Expression Commission for the Inter American Press Association (IAPA). He has published several books, including The Third Way, co-written with the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Check on Terror (Jaque al Terror), where he describes his efforts to combat FARC, the revolutionary guerrilla organization, during his tenure as head of the Ministry of Defense.
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