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Colombian economist and politician In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gaviria and the second or maternal family name is Muñoz.
Simón Gaviria Muñoz
General Director of National Planning
In office
11 August 2014 (2014-08-11) – 11 May 2017 (2017-05-11)
PresidentJuan Manuel Santos
Preceded byTatyana Orozco
Succeeded byLuis Fernando Mejía
President of the Chamber of Representatives
In office
20 July 2011 (2011-07-20) – 20 July 2012 (2012-07-20)
Preceded byCarlos Alberto Zuluaga
Succeeded byAugusto Posada Sánchez
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
In office
20 July 2006 (2006-07-20) – 20 July 2014 (2014-07-20)
ConstituencyCapital District
Personal details
BornSimón Gaviria Muñoz
(1980-11-24) 24 November 1980 (age 44)
Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
Political partyLiberal
Spouse María Margarita Amín Díaz ​ ​(m. 2010)​
Children
  • Sofía Gaviria Amín
  • Filipa Gaviria Amín
Parents
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania (BEcon)
Harvard Kennedy School (MPA)
ProfessionEconomist
Websitesimongaviria.com.co

Simón Gaviria Muñoz (born 24 November 1980) is a Colombian economist and politician who served as Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 2006 until 2014. The son of the 28th President of Colombia, César Gaviria, he also served as the Director of the National Planning Department during the second Santos government. He is an economist from the University of Pennsylvania and has a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. He is remembered for voting for the 2012 Justice reform without having read it.

He was elected to the Chamber in 2006 in representation of the Bogotá circumscription as the second-in-line in the electoral list headed by David Luna Sánchez of the For the Country of our Dreams movement that received 103,795 votes in the 2006 legislative elections. In a 2007 survey of RCN TV, he was chosen as "Surprise Representative" for his rapid ascent in high politics and legislative actions, and in 2008 was chosen as "Best Chamber Representative" in another poll by RCN TV and Caracol Radio.

In the 2010 legislative elections, this time as a Liberal party candidate and head of the electoral list, he was re-elected with a total of 72,896, the largest margin of votes for any one Representative to the Chamber in 2010, and elected unanimously President of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia for the legislative period 2011–2012 by the Liberal caucus in the chamber.

Personal life

Born on 24 November 1980 in Pereira, Colombia, he is the eldest of two children, son of César Gaviria and Ana Milena Muñoz Gómez; his younger sister is María Paz Gaviria. He is married to María Margarita Amín Díaz with whom he has two daughters, Sofía and Filipa.

See also

References

  1. "Simón Gaviria Muñoz: Curriculum" (in Spanish). Congreso Visible. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
  2. "Simón Gaviria Muñoz". El Espectador (in Spanish). 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
  3. Leon, Karen (2011-03-30). "Liberales proclaman a Simón Gaviria como su candidato a la presidencia de la Cámara" [Liberals proclaim Simón Gaviria as candidate to the President of the Chamber]. RCN Radio (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2011-04-04. Retrieved 2011-08-25.

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