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Patricia Cárdenas
Colombia Ambassador to Mexico
Incumbent
Assumed office
March 2016
PresidentJuan Manuel Santos Calderón
Colombia Ambassador to Brazil
In office
March 2014 – March 2016
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded byFrancisco José Sierra Arango
Colombia Ambassador to Japan
In office
15 March 2007 – March 2014
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded byFrancisco José Sierra Arango
Colombia Ambassador to Singapore
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 July 2007
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded byFrancisco José Sierra Arango
Colombia Ambassador to Australia
In office
31 May 2007 – 30 April 2008
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded byFrancisco José Sierra Arango
Succeeded byDiego Betancur Álvarez
Colombia Ambassador to New Zealand
In office
17 July 2007 – 17 February 2009
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded byFrancisco José Sierra Arango
Succeeded byDiego Betancur Álvarez
Personal details
BornMedellín, Antioquia, Colombia
SpouseRicardo Sala Gaitán (divorced)
RelationsMauricio Cárdenas Santa María (brother)
ChildrenMaría Paula Sala Cárdenas
Ana Daniela Sala Cárdenas
Juan Felipe Sala Cárdenas
Alma materUniversity of the Andes (BSc, 1983)
ProfessionIndustrial Engineer
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cárdenas and the second or maternal family name is Santamaría.

Patricia Eugenia Cárdenas Santa María (born 1958) is a Colombian diplomat, businesswoman and engineer. She is the current Ambassador of Colombia in México. She served as Ambassador of Colombia to Brazil, as Ambassador of Colombia to Japan and Non-Resident Ambassador to Singapore Australia and New Zealand. An industrial engineer, she was President of the Banking and Financial Institutions Association of Colombia from 2000 to 2006.

Background

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She is daughter of Jorge Cárdenas Gutierrez, former President of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, and Cecilia Santa María Botero. She married, and later divorced, Ricardo Sala Gaitán with whom she had three children: María Paula, Ana Daniela, and Juan Felipe.[1]

Patricia Cárdenas is a qualified Industrial Engineer from University of Los Andes, Bogota. She obtained a Diploma in Economic Development from the University of Oxford in June 1985.[2]

Career

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From 1982 to 1984, Cárdenas was the Administrative Director of the Research Institute SER. She became Head of the Planning for the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit's Economic and Fiscal Analysis Office in 1985 and from 1989 Advisor to Minister, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.[2]

In 1996, Cárdenas became Commercial Director at Naturandina Ltda, International Trading Co. She then entered politics from 1998 to 2000 as a City Council Member of Bogota D.C. In 2001 she became President of the Banking and Financial Institutions Association of Colombia, ASOBANCARIA.[2]

Cárdenas has served on numerous boards as representative of the Minister of Finance including being the Joint Administrator of the Institute of Social Insurances, the Committee of Credit of the National Energy Finance, and the Plan of Integrated Rural Development.[2]

From 1996 to 1997, she was on the Board of Fiduciary Bogotá, from 2000 to 2006 Crafts of Colombia as the representative of the President of the Republic, from 2001 to 2006 the Board of the National Fund of Guarantees Co Ltd. She was also on the Board of Latin American Federation of Banks - FELABAN from 2002 to 2006, and the Modern Art Museum of Bogota from 2004-2006. Cárdenas was a member of the Boards of Directors of the University of Los Andes.[2]

Ambassadorship

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On 19 December 2006, President Álvaro Uribe Vélez appointed Cárdenas Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia to the State of Japan accredited as Non-Resident Ambassador to the Commonwealth of Australia, the Republic of Singapore, and New Zealand.[3] Cárdenas presented her Letters of Credence to Emperor Akihito of Japan on 17 March 2007 at a ceremony at the Tokyo Imperial Palace, to Major General Michael Jeffery, Governor-General of Australia, on 31 May 2007 at Government House, Canberra,[4] to Sellapan Ramanathan, President of Singapore, on 26 July 2007 at the Istana,[5] and to Sir Anand Satyanand, Governor-General of New Zealand on 17 July 2007 at Government House, Wellington.[6]

In 2008, Colombia reopened its embassy in Australia and named Diego Betancur Álvarez Ambassador of Colombia to Australia, formally taking the representation of Colombia to Australia and New Zealand from Ambassador Cárdenas who remained Ambassador to Japan and Singapore.

On 2014, after 7 years accredited as Colombian Ambassador of Colombia to Japan, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón appointed Cárdenas Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia to the Federative Republic of Brazil.[7] Cárdenas remained in this position from March 2014 to March 2016.

Cárdenas was appointed Ambassador of Colombia to Mexico in March 2016. Ambassador Cárdenas presented her Letters of Credence to President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto, on 12 May 2016.

Ambassador Cárdenas promoted the celebration of the Colombia-Mexico / Mexico-Colombia year, 2017-2018, with more than 200 activities in both countries.

References

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  1. ^ Gallo Martínez, Luis Álvaro (2005-01-05). "Don Marcelino Restrepo y Restrepo: Su Vida y Su Descendencia" [Don Marcelino Restrepo y Restrepo: His Life and His Offspring] (PDF) (in Spanish). Asociación Colombiana Para el Estudio de las Genealogías. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-05-30.
  2. ^ a b c d e Biographical data, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, Retrieved 19 June 2015
  3. ^ "Cuarto Oscuro" (in Spanish). Office of the President of Colombia (SNE). 2006-12-19. Retrieved 2011-09-05. A las 9 de la mañana de hoy tomó posesión ante el presidente de la República, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, la nueva embajadora de Colombia ante el gobierno de Japón, Patricia Cárdenas Santa María.
  4. ^ "Governor-General's Program". 2007-05-31. Archived from the original on 2011-03-15. Retrieved 2011-09-05. Afterwards, the Governor-General received from Her Excellency Mrs Patricia Eugenia Cardenas Santamaria, Letters of Credence accrediting her as Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia.
  5. ^ "Presentation of Credentials". Singapore, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2007-07-26. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
  6. ^ "Envoys from Brazil, Malta and Columbia present their credentials". Website of the Governor-General of New Zealand. 2007-07-16. Retrieved 2011-09-05. The Ambassadors of Brazil and Colombia and the High Commissioner of Malta present credentials to the Governor-General, the Hon Anand Satyanand, at Government House Wellington on Tuesday 17 July at 11.30 am.
  7. ^ "Patricia Cárdenas será la nueva embajadora de Colombia en Brasil". Elpaís.com.co. 2014-03-18. Retrieved 2015-06-21.


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