Education
University of the Andes. University of California, Berkeley.
University of the Andes. University of California, Berkeley.
Prior to this, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Foreign the Government of Colombia, he has also served as the 4th Minister of Economic Development, the 6th Minister of Transport, and former Director of the National Planning Department, and in the private sector has served as 11th and 9th Director of the Higher Education and Development Foundation (Fedesarrollo), as the 7th President Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), as former President of Titularizadora Colombiana South America, and as General Manager of Empresa de Energía de Bogotá South America Education Support Professionals.
On 20 September 2011 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón designated Cárdenas to succeed Juan Carlos Echeverry as Minister of Economy. He was sworn in as the 29th on 26 September.