Carlos Fernando Galán
Colombian politician (born 1977)
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- Carlos Fernando Galán Pachón (born June 4, 1977) is a Colombian politician and journalist.
- He is the current Mayor of Bogotá following the 2023 regional elections, becoming the 800th person to hold this position.
- He is a Specialist in Government, Management, and Public Affairs from the Externado de Colombia University, and has yet to complete postgraduate studies in International Affairs at Columbia University.
- Political career He worked at the Organization of American States (OAS) as an advisor to President César Gaviria when he was Secretary General between 2001 and 2003 and electoral observer during the 2001 Nicaraguan general election.
Carlos Fernando Galán Pachón (born June 4, 1977) is a Colombian politician and journalist. The youngest son of the presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, assassinated in 1989, and brother of the senator Juan Manuel Galán, Galán has been a Bogotá Councilor and a Senator of the Republic of Colombia, a position he resigned after resigning from the Radical Change Party due to ideological differences, the main of them, the support that his party decided to give Iván Duque for the 2018 presidential elections.
He was the candidate for mayor of Bogotá in 2019 for the independent movement Bogotá para la Gente, obtaining more than one million votes, and coming in second place.
He is the current Mayor of Bogotá following the 2023 regional elections, becoming the 800th person to hold this position.
Biography
He graduated from Georgetown University as a Foreign Service Professional with an emphasis in International Economics. He is a Specialist in Government, Management, and Public Affairs from the Externado de Colombia University, and has yet to complete postgraduate studies in International Affairs at Columbia University. He was a correspondent for Semana Magazine in Washington, editor of the Cambio Magazine and Political Editor of El Tiempo, where he was part of the team that in 2007 won the National Journalism Award from the Círculo de Periodistas de Bogotá for investigations into parapolitics.
Political career
He worked at the Organization of American States (OAS) as an advisor to President César Gaviria when he was Secretary General between 2001 and 2003 and electoral observer during the 2001 Nicaraguan general election.
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