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Juan Carlos Echeverry Garzón is a Colombian economist and current president of Ecopetrol, an oil and gas company.

Education

University of the Andes. New York University.

Career

He served as the 68th Minister of Finance and Public Cr of Colombia. He is the president of Econcept, a financial consulting firm in Bogotá and is an Associate Professor of Economics at University of the Andes. He was also a visiting professor at Individual Education Business School, Madrid in 2013.

He served as Colombia’s Minister of Economic Planning from 2000–2002 and held the position of Dean of Economics at the University of the Andes from 2002-2006.

He was appointed finance minister by Colombia"s President-elect Juan Manuel Santos on June 22, 2010. Echeverry received a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of the Andes.

Echeverry writes a weekly editorial for Cable News Network en Español.