Presidents of Colombia

Current President of the Republic of Colombia

Juan Manuel Santos
Presidential term: 2010–2014
Born August 10, 1951.

Dr Santos studied at the University of Kansas, where he earned a BA degree in Economics and Business Administration. He earned Masters' degrees in Economics and Economic Development and Public Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science, at Harvard University.
He was awarded a scholarship by Tufts University (Fulbright Foundation of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) and by Harvard University (Nieman Foundation for Journalism).
Santos has held several important government posts, such as Director of the Colombian Delegation at the International Coffee Organization in London, Foreign Trade Minister, Minister of Finance and Public Credit, President of the Seventh Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) of the United Nations, President of ECLAC and president of the Freedom of Speach Committee at the Interamerican Press Association (IAPA)
He also presided over the Board of Directors of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF).
From June, 2006 to May, 2009, he held the post of Minister of National Defence, a job he carried out brillantly.
he was the Vice-Chairman and columnist of El Tiempo newspaper for several years. Furthermore, he was a professor of Economic Politics at Los Andes University in Bogota.
He is the author of the excellent book called Jaque al terror published in November, 2009.

Former Presidents of the Country (Born in Bogota)
(Arranged chronologically by their administration)

Presidents of the State of de Cundinamarca

Jorge Tadeo Lozano (1771-1816)
Presidential term: 1811
First president of the state of Cundinamarca. He introduced the first Liberal Constitution for the state.

Antonio Nariño (1765-1823)
Presidential term:1811–1812
Precursor to Colombian Independence, he was a political and military leader. Nariño was the first Spanish American translator of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen", promulgated by the French National Constituent Assembly in 1789.

Presidents of New Granada

General Domingo Caycedo Santamaría (1783-1843)
Presidential term: 1830 (Vice-president and president ).

General Pedro Alcántara Herrán (1800-1872)
Presidential term: 1841–1845

Presidents of the Granadine Confederation

General Eustorgio Salgar (1831-1885)
Presidential term: 1870–1872

Francisco Javier Zaldúa (1811-1882)
Presidential term: 1882.