Education
Universidad de los Andes.
politician member of the Senate of Colombia
Universidad de los Andes.
A Liberal party politician and economist, he has previously served as Minister of National Defence, and was elected Senator of Colombia from for the 2002-2006 legislative period. On 31 October 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Pardo as the head of the newly created Ministry of Labour, established as part of a wider Ministerial Cabinet Reform in order to fulfil some of his 2010 campaign promises. In January 2014, President Santos appointed Minister Pardo as acting Mayor of Bogotá, a position he held until April of that year.