Beatriz Londoño Soto

Beatriz Londoño Soto
Colombia Ambassador to Switzerland
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 March 2013
President	Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by	Claudia Turbay Quintero
2nd Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia
In office 24 January 2011 – 3 September 2012
President	Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by	Mauricio Santa María Salamanca
Succeeded by	Alejandro Gaviria Uribe
Personal details
Born	1959 Medellín
Nationality	Colombian
Spouse(s)	Alonso Bravo Escobar
Children	María Bravo Londoño
Alma mater	Pontifical Bolivarian University (MBBS, 1982) Harvard School of Public Health (MPH, 1990)
Profession	Physician
Religion	Roman Catholic

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Londoño and the second or maternal family name is Soto.

Beatriz Londoño Soto, M.D. (born 1959) is the Ambassador of Colombia to Switzerland. A Colombian physician and administrative politician, who previously served as the 2nd Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia in the Administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. She had previously served as Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare under the administration of her predecessor from 2012 under her current appointment, and as Director of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute from 2002 to 2006.

Ambassadorship

On 19 March 2013 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón appointed Londoño Ambassador of Colombia to Switzerland. She presented her Letters of Credence to the President of the Swiss Confederation, Ueli Maurer, and the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland, Corina Casanova, at a ceremony at the Federal Palace on 26 March 2013.