Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María

Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María
Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María
	Minister Cárdenas at the World Economic Forum in 2010
69th Minister of Finance and Public Credit
	Incumbent
	Assumed office; 3 September 2012
President	Juan Manuel Santos
Preceded by	Juan Carlos Echeverry
29th Minister of Mines and Energy
	In office; 26 September 2011 – 3 September 2012
President	Juan Manuel Santos
Preceded by	Carlos Rodado Noriega
Succeeded by	Federico Renjifo Vélez
Director of the National Planning Department
	In office; 13 August 1999 – 27 August 2000
President	Andrés Pastrana Arango
Preceded by	Jaime Ruíz Llano
Succeeded by	Juan Carlos Echeverry
6th Minister of Transport
	In office; 7 August 1998 – 13 August 1999
President	Andrés Pastrana Arango
Preceded by	Rodrigo Marín Bernal
Succeeded by	Gustavo Canal Mora
4th Minister of Economic Development
	In office; 17 January 1994 – 7 August 1994
President	César Gaviria
Preceded by	Luis Alberto Moreno
Succeeded by	Rodrigo Marín Bernal
Personal details
Born	9 June 1962 (age 61); Medellín, Colombia
Political party	Conservative Party
Spouse(s)	Cristina Fernández Mejía (1998–present)
Children	Isabela; Andrea
Alma mater	University of the Andes; University of California, Berkeley
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Website	Official website

Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María (born 9 June 1962)^[1] is the 69th and current Minister of Finance and Public Credit and former Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia, serving in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. Prior to this, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution.^[2] For the Government of Colombia, he has also served as the 4th Minister of Economic Development, the 6th Minister of Transport, and former Director of the National Planning Department, and in the private sector has served as 11th and 9th Director of the Higher Education and Development Foundation (Fedesarrollo),^[3] as the 7th President Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA),^[4] as former President of Titularizadora Colombiana S.A., and as General Manager of Empresa de Energía de Bogotá S.A. ESP.

Minister of Mines and Energy

On 20 September 2011 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón designated Cárdenas to succeed Juan Carlos Echeverry as Minister of Economy.^[5] He was sworn in as the 29th Minister of Mines and Energy on 26 September.^[6]

Born to Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez, former President of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, and his wife Cecilia Santa María Botero on 9 June 1962 in Medellín, Antioquia;^[7] the third of four children, his other siblings are: Patricia Eugenia, Jorge Hernán, and Eduardo.^[7]^[8] On 10 January 1998 he married Cristina Fernández Mejía in a Catholic wedding at the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Church in Cartagena de Indias;^[9] together they have two daughters: Isabella and Andrea.^[7]

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Political offices
Preceded by Juan Carlos Echeverry	Minister of Finance and Public Credit 2012–present	Incumbent