Clara Eugenia López Obregón (born 12 April 1950) is a Colombian politician who was the Minister for Employment. She also served as Acting Mayor of Bogotá from 2011 to 2012. A Harvard-trained economist,[1] she was the Alternative Democratic Pole's nominee for President of Colombia in the 2014 election.[2][3]
Clara López | |
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 López in 2016 | |
| Minister of Labour | |
| In office 25 April 2016 – 5 May 2017 | |
| Appointed by | Juan Manuel Santos |
| Preceded by | Luis Eduardo Garzón |
| Acting Mayor of Bogotá | |
| In office 8 June 2011 – 1 January 2012 | |
| Appointed by | Juan Manuel Santos |
| Preceded by | Samuel Moreno |
| Succeeded by | Gustavo Petro |
| 6th Auditor General of Colombia | |
| In office 1 April 2003 – 1 April 2005 | |
| Nominated by | Supreme Court of Justice |
| Appointed by | Council of State |
| Preceded by | César Augusto López |
| Succeeded by | Piedad Zúñiga |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Clara Eugenia López Obregón 12 April 1950 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Political party | Alternative Democratic Pole (2005—present) |
| Other political affiliations |
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| Spouses | Edmond Jacques Courtois Miller
(m. 1980–1983)Carlos Arturo Romero Jiménez
(m. 1985) |
| Alma mater |
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| Profession | Economist, lawyer |
López is also a University of Los Andes-trained lawyer with a doctorate from the University of Salamanca, and served as the sixth Auditor General of Colombia from 2003 to 2005.[citation needed]
Personal life
editLópez was born on 12 April 1950 in Bogotá, Colombia to Álvaro López Holguín (grandson of Alfonso López Pumarejo) and Cecilia Obregón Rocha.[4] (cousin of painter Alejandro Obregón Roses) [5] She attended Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogotá,[5] but was later sent to live in McLean, Virginia in the United States, where she attended the Madeira School, a prestigious preparatory boarding school for girls.[5] After graduating high school in 1968, she attended Harvard University where she became an active participant in the student movement opposed to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. She graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in June 1972.[5]
She was married on 13 September 1980 in Tenjo, Cundinamarca to Edmond Jacques Courtois Miller,[6] a wealthy Canadian banker whom she met while in Harvard, but they later divorced after Courtois was charged and pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in New York in 1983, having peddled confidential takeover information while a vice president at Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions department from 1974 to 1977.[7] She later remarried to Carlos Romero Jiménez, whom she met while they both served in the Bogotá City Council. She has no children.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "Clara Lopez | Profile". Colombia News | Colombia Reports. 1 April 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "FACTBOX-Candidates in Colombia's presidential election". Reuters. 26 May 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ^ "Clara Eugenia López Obregón, Colombia, Ministra de Trabajo (2016-) y candidata presidencial (2014)". www.cidob.org. 2014.
- ^ Restrepo Sáenz, José María; Rivas, Raimundo; Restrepo Posada, José, eds. (1995). Genealogías de Santa Fe de Bogotá (in Spanish) (4 ed.). Bogotá: Editorial Presencia. p. 390. OCLC 28546996. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ a b c d Vengoechea, Alejandra de. "Clara López: La mujer rebelde". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Bogotá. ISSN 0121-9987. OCLC 28894254. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ "Bogotá Social". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 24 (143). Bogotá: 10E. 12 September 1980. ISSN 0121-9987. OCLC 28894254.
- ^ "Courtois faces U.S. conspiracy charges". The Gazette. Montreal: 30. 5 February 1981. ISSN 0384-1294. OCLC 456824368. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
External links
edit- Biography by CIDOB Archived 6 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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