Education
He completed secondary education at Colegio San Carlos in Bogotá, Colombia.
He completed secondary education at Colegio San Carlos in Bogotá, Colombia.
He also served concurrently as Non-Resident Ambassador to Ireland. He has also worked as Dean of the Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración, his alma mater from 2007 to 2009, and was with Dow Chemical from 1981 to 1993, where he occupied several directive positions in Colombia, Venezuela, the United States, Switzerland and Italy. On 15 August 2010, President Álvaro Uribe Vélez designated Rodríguez to succeed Noemí Sanín Posada as Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom.
On October 5, in an official ceremony at the Palace of Nariño, Rodríguez was sworn in by President Uribe as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Colombia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concurrently accredited as Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland.
Rodríguez arrived in London on October 10, officially taking his post as Head of Mission and settling into his official residence, but officially presented his Letters of Credence to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in an official ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 11 February 2011, and later that month travelled to Ireland to present his Letters of Credence to Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, in an official ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin on 17 February.