Iván Duque Márquez

Iván Duque Márquez served as President of Colombia from 2018 to 2022 and as Senator from 2014 to 2018. During his presidency, Colombia advanced a pro-growth agenda focused on entrepreneurship, digital transformation, infrastructure, financial inclusion, energy transition and sustainable investment. Under his administration, Colombia joined the OECD in 2020, strengthened its position as one of Latin America’s leading market economies, and achieved a strong post-pandemic recovery, with growth reaching 10.6% in 2021, among the fastest in the region. He also led the country through the Covid-19 pandemic, combining social protection, economic reactivation and one of the region’s most ambitious vaccination efforts. He is currently a member of Concordia’s Leadership Council and of the World Leaders Circle at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. He also serves as Distinguished Fellow at the World Resources Institute, the Bezos Earth Fund, Cornell University’s Emerging Markets Institute, the Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and Barna Management School, and as Professor of Practice at Florida International University.