The Economist Louis Fernando Medina He was sworn in this Thursday night as Colombia’s ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) by President Gustavo Petro.
(The objections of the Liberal parties and ‘La U’ to the tax).
It is worth remembering that Medina, who He was part of the economic team of the government jointwill replace Adriana Mejía Hernández, who led the mission in Paris (Ocde headquarters), since last August 2021.
Luis Fernando Medina is an economist and philosopher from the Universidad de Los Andes and the Universidad Nacional, and has a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
He has also been a professor of economics at the Universidad de Los Andes, the Externado and the Nacional, and Political Science at the Universities of Chicago and Virginia.
(Tax evasion: one of the challenges of the tax reform).
In the same act where Medina was sworn in this Thursday, the country’s representatives before Spain, Italy, Panama, Cuba and Switzerland were also made official.
Before the Kingdom of Spain, Eduardo Ávila Navarrete will act as ambassador; in the Republic of Italy, Ligia Margarita Quessep Bitar; against Switzerland, Francisco Javier Echeverri Lara; in Cuba, José Noé Ríos Muñoz will represent the country, and before the Republic of Panama, Mauricio Baquero Pardo.
In the act of inauguration, the Colombian Head of State indicated that the new diplomats “are Colombian ambassadors of peace in many of these countries who have said they want to support the efforts to end the violence in this country, who have even suffered from being supporting peace efforts in Colombia. Representations that, then, can build a better life for Colombians”.
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