Noemí Sanín

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Noemí Sanín at the World Economic Forum 2010 in Davos

Marta Noemí del Espíritu Santo Sanín Posada de Rubio (born June 6, 1949 in Medellín , Antioquia ) is a Colombian diplomat and politician who was a presidential candidate several times .

biography

After attending school, the daughter of the writer, editor and university professor Jaime Sanín Echeverry studied law , social and economic science at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and then worked as a lawyer . She specialized in commercial and finance law and was also a fellow at Harvard University .

She then worked in the private sector and initially became Vice President for Loans and Operations at the financial company Colmena in 1976 . In 1978 she became President of Colmena, making her the first female CEO of such a financial institution in Latin America . In 1983 she was appointed Minister of Communications by President Belisario Betancur and held this position until the end of Betancur's tenure in 1986. Later, from 1988 to 1990, she was President of Corporación Financiera Colombiana , an organization that supports companies from various economic sectors.

In 1990 she was appointed ambassador to Venezuela . However, from that office one year was called out and instead in 1991 by President César Gaviria to Secretary appointed. After the end of President Gaviria's term of office, she was again ambassador to Venezuela between 1994 and 1998.

In the presidential elections in Colombia in 1998 , she ran for the first time for the office of president for the electoral alliance Si Colombia , but won 26.77 percent of the vote after Andrés Pastrana (34.37 percent) and Horacio Serpa (34.78 percent), who was later elected president Percent) only came third in the first ballot.

In 2002 she applied again for the presidency of Si Colombia and this time she won 5.81 percent of the vote after Álvaro Uribe Vélez (53.05 percent), Horacio Serpa (31.8 percent) and Luis, who had already been elected president in the first ballot Eduardo Garzón (6.16 percent) this time only finished fourth. Despite the competition in the election, President Uribe appointed her ambassador to Spain in 2003 and then ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2009 .

Noemí Sanín, who is also a member of the Club of Rome , applied again for the office of president in the 2010 presidential elections in Colombia as a representative of the Partido Conservador Colombiano . However, it did not reach the runoff election, but ended up being beaten in the first ballot after Juan Manuel Santos (46.56 percent), Antanas Mockus (21.49 percent), Germán Vargas Lleras (10.13 percent) and Gustavo Petro (9, 15 percent) with only 6.14 percent of the vote in fifth place.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RADIO SANTA FÉ: Noemí Sanín ganó la consulta conservadora (March 19, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Sanín, Noemí
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanín Posada de Rubio, Marta Noemí del Espíritu Santo (full name); Sanín Posada de Rubio, Marta Nohemí del Espíritu Santo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Medellin , Antioquia