Fernando Londoño Hoyos
Minister of Interior and Justice
The Interior and Justice Minister, aged 57, is a lawyer and economist from Javeriana University, Bogota.
He has had a brilliant career, and amongst other things has been Superintendent of Exchange Control, General Secretary of the Latin American Federation of Banks, President for many years of the confectionery industry association Acodulces, the timber industry association Ademacol, and the tourism and travel association Anato.
Fernando Londoño was the General Manager of the National Exporters Association Analdex, and has been a company director in various sectors such as banking and finance, gas distribution, steel and the food industry.
The new Minister has been a regular contributor to the columns of newspapers and magazines at hiome and abroad, including La República, El Colombiano, El País, La Patria, El Espectador, Universitas, Economía Colombiana, and American Bankers Association's Magazine (USA).
He has also been a university lecturer: Introduction to Advocacy, Law of Evidence and Constitutional Law at Universidad Javeriana University, lecturer in a graduate course in Constitutional Law at Universidad Javeriana and the Philosophy of Advocacy at Universidad de Caldas; and a guest lecturer at universities in Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and Brazil.
Lecturer in banking and financial topics in 18 countries of Latin America, the United States, France and Spain.
A native of the Department of Caldas, and member of the Conservative Party, this attorney in civil, commercial, financial, administrative and criminal courts devotes all his free-time to "read, read and read". He has three daughters and one son.
Besides Spanish -his mother tongue-, he is perfectly fluent in French. He also understands English, Italian and Portuguese.
He has taken part as a lawyer in 30 arbitration tribunals in Bogota, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Manizales and Neiva, especially in administrative cases.
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