Clara López

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is López and the second or maternal family name is Obregón.
Clara López
López in 2016
Minister of Labour
In office
25 April 2016 (2016-04-25) – 5 May 2017 (2017-05-05)
Appointed byJuan Manuel Santos
Preceded byLuis Eduardo Garzón
Acting Mayor of Bogotá
In office
8 June 2011 (2011-06-08) – 1 January 2012 (2012-01-01)
Appointed byJuan Manuel Santos
Preceded bySamuel Moreno
Succeeded byGustavo Petro
6th Auditor General of Colombia
In office
1 April 2003 (2003-04-01) – 1 April 2005 (2005-04-01)
Nominated bySupreme Court of Justice
Appointed byCouncil of State
Preceded byCésar Augusto López
Succeeded byPiedad Zúñiga
Personal details
Born
Clara Eugenia López Obregón

(1950-04-12) 12 April 1950 (age 74)
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Political partyAlternative Democratic Pole (2005—present)
Other political
affiliations
Spouses
Edmond Jacques Courtois Miller
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(m. 1980⁠–⁠1983)​
Carlos Arturo Romero Jiménez
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(m. 1985)​
Alma mater
ProfessionEconomist, lawyer

Clara Eugenia López Obregón (born 12 April 1950) is a Colombian politician who was the Minister for Employment. She also served as Acting Mayor of Bogotá from 2011 to 2012. A Harvard-trained economist,[1] she was the Alternative Democratic Pole's nominee for President of Colombia in the 2014 election.[2][3]

López is also a University of Los Andes-trained lawyer with a doctorate from the University of Salamanca, and served as the sixth Auditor General of Colombia from 2003 to 2005.[citation needed]

Personal life

López was born on 12 April 1950 in Bogotá, Colombia to Álvaro López Holguín (grandson of Alfonso López Pumarejo) and Cecilia Obregón Rocha.[4] (cousin of painter Alejandro Obregón Roses) [5] She attended Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogotá,[5] but was later sent to live in McLean, Virginia in the United States, where she attended the Madeira School, a prestigious preparatory boarding school for girls.[5] After graduating high school in 1968, she attended Harvard University where she became an active participant in the student movement opposed to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. She graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in June 1972.[5]

She was married on 13 September 1980 in Tenjo, Cundinamarca to Edmond Jacques Courtois Miller,[6] a wealthy Canadian banker whom she met while in Harvard, but they later divorced after Courtois was charged and pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in New York in 1983, having peddled confidential takeover information while a vice president at Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions department from 1974 to 1977.[7] She later remarried to Carlos Romero Jiménez, whom she met while they both served in the Bogotá City Council. She has no children.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Clara Lopez | Profile". Colombia News | Colombia Reports. 1 April 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  2. ^ "FACTBOX-Candidates in Colombia's presidential election". Reuters. 26 May 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  3. ^ "Clara Eugenia López Obregón, Colombia, Ministra de Trabajo (2016-) y candidata presidencial (2014)". www.cidob.org. 2014.
  4. ^ Restrepo Sáenz, José María; Rivas, Raimundo; Restrepo Posada, José, eds. (1995). Genealogías de Santa Fe de Bogotá (in Spanish) (4 ed.). Bogotá: Editorial Presencia. p. 390. OCLC 28546996. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d Vengoechea, Alejandra de. "Clara López: La mujer rebelde". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Bogotá. ISSN 0121-9987. OCLC 28894254. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Bogotá Social". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 24 (143). Bogotá: 10E. 12 September 1980. ISSN 0121-9987. OCLC 28894254.
  7. ^ "Courtois faces U.S. conspiracy charges". The Gazette. Montreal: 30. 5 February 1981. ISSN 0384-1294. OCLC 456824368. Retrieved 22 May 2014.


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