Alicia Arango

Alicia Victoria Arango Olmos (born 1 October 1958) is a Colombian politician and businesswoman, who serves as the Minister of Interior and former Minister of Labor of Colombia.[1] She was previously the private secretary of President Álvaro Uribe's Casa de Nariño and the nation's ambassador to the United Nations at Geneva.[2]

Alicia Arango
Alicia Arango in 2005
Minister of Interior of Colombia
Assumed office
13 February 2020
PresidentIván Duque Márquez
Preceded byNancy Patricia Gutierrez
Minister of Labor of Colombia
In office
7 August 2018  13 February 2020
PresidentIván Duque Márquez
Preceded byGriselda Restrepo
Succeeded byÁngel Custodio Cabrera
Personal details
Born
Alicia Victoria Arango Olmos

(1958-10-01) October 1, 1958
Cartagena, Colombia
NationalityColombian

Biography

Alicia Arango studied business administration at the College of Advanced Management Studies at Bogotá and specialized in public administration at the University of the Andes. She was the Chief of Staff and then assistant chief of staff of Coldeportes, and was later appointed deputy director of the Colombian Institute of Administration. Arango was an adviser to Adelina Covo when she was the Colombian Minister of Education in 1995 and in 1997 to 1998, Arango was a delegate for Cesar and Cundinamarca Departments (respectively) before the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, also while Covo was head of that entity.[3]

During the first term of Enrique Peñalosa as mayor of Bogotá, Arango was the director of the city's District Institute of Recreation and Sports.[4]

Arango was appointed to replace Angelino Garzón as Colombia's ambassador to the United Nations, taking her office 9 June 2010.[5]

In July 2015, Arango was appointed director of the Democratic Center Party, founded in 2013 by Álvaro Uribe.[6]

References

  1. "Alicia Arango será la ministra del Trabajo del gobierno de Duque" (in Spanish). Redacción Política. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  2. Vélez Vieira, Cristina (9 August 2009). "La sombra del Presidente". La Silla Vacía (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  3. "Alicia Arango Olmos". La Silla Vacía (in Spanish). 23 November 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  4. "Alicia Arango, su secretaria privada, es la mujer que le habla sin rodeos al Presidente". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 7 March 2009. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  5. Rodriguez-Bloch, Laila (10 June 2010). "Nueva Representante de Colombia ante la ONU en Ginebra". Noticias de Ginebra y Suiza. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  6. "Alicia Arango, mano derecha de Uribe, nueva directora del Centro Democrático". El Espectador (in Spanish). 13 March 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
Political offices
Preceded by
Griselda Restrepo
Minister of Labor of Colombia
2018–present
Incumbent
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