Juan Manuel Santos

Quick Facts

Full Name	Juan Manuel Santos
Occupation	World Leader
Date Of Birth	Aug 10, 1951(1951-08-10)
Age	73
Country	Colombia
Birth City	Bogota
Horoscope	Leo

Juan Manuel Santos Biography

Juan Manuel Santos is one of the most popular and richest World Leader who was born on August 10, 1951 in Bogota, Colombia. Journalist and economist who was elected the 32nd president of Colombia in the year 2010. He gained a lot of attention for his role in Operation Jaque, in which 15 hostages were freed from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (RAFCO), a marxist militant group.

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Santos was born on 10 August 1951 in Bogotá to Enrique Santos Castillo and his wife Clemencia Calderón Nieto, his brothers are: Enrique, Luis Fernando, and Felipe. The Santos family has been a well established and influential family since the mid-20th century; his great-great-grandaunt was María Antonia Santos Plata, a martyr of the Independence of Colombia, and his great-granduncle was Eduardo Santos Montejo, President of Colombia between 1938 and 1942, who acquired the national newspaper El Tiempo. From there, his family has been connected to the newspaper and influenced the political life of the country; Eduardo’s brother, Enrique, grandfather of Juan Manuel, and editor in chief of El Tiempo, was known as “Calibán” to his readers, and his three sons, Enrique (Juan Manuel’s father) and Hernando Santos Castillo, and Enrique Santos Molano were chief editor, director, and columnist respectively. Through his father’s brother, Hernando, and his mother’s sister, Elena, Juan Manuel is also first cousin on both sides to Francisco Santos Calderón, former Vice President of Colombia during the previous administration from 2002 to 2010.

Juan Manuel Santos Calderón GColIH GCB GColL (Spanish: [ˈxwam maˈnwel ˈsantos kaldeˈɾon] ; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.

He married Maria Clemencia Rodriguez Minera in 1987.

Juan Manuel Santos Net Worth

Juan Manuel Santos is one of the richest World Leader from Colombia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Juan Manuel Santos 's net worth $2 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a member of his time in the Colombian Navy before enrolling at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

He served in Colombia as President and Minister for Foreign Trade, Minister of Finance as well as the Minister of Defense.

An economist by profession and a journalist by trade, Santos is a member of the wealthy and influential Santos family, who from 1913 to 2007 were the majority shareholders of the newspaper El Tiempo until its sale to Planeta DeAgostini in 2007. He was a cadet at the Navy Academy in Cartagena. Shortly after graduating from the University of Kansas, he joined the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia as an economic advisor and delegate to the International Coffee Organization in London, where he also attended the London School of Economics. In 1981, he was appointed deputy director of El Tiempo newspaper, becoming its director two years later. Santos earned a mid- career/master’s in public administration in 1981 from Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and was a 1988 Nieman Fellow for his award-winning work as a columnist and reporter. Santos was a Fulbright visiting fellow at Fletcher at Tufts University in 1981. Santos has been a member of the Washington-based think tank the Inter-American Dialogue since 1990, and he previously served as co- chair of the Board of Directors. Santos was president of the Freedom of Expression Commission for the Inter American Press Association.

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Who is Juan Manuel Santos Dating?

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He was Minister of Foreign Trade of Colombia during the administration of President César Gaviria Trujillo from 1991 to 1994, Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia during the administration of President Andres Pastrana Arango from 2000 to 2002. In 1992 he was appointed President of the VIII United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Facts & Trivia

Juan Ranked on the list of most popular World Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Colombia. Juan Manuel Santos celebrates birthday on August 10 of every year.

In 1994 Juan Manuel Santos founded the Good Government Foundation, whose stated objective is helping and improving the governability and efficiency of the Colombian Government. This organization presented a proposal for a demilitarized zone and peace talks with the FARC guerrilla group. Juan Manuel Santos has been named as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa is granting the Honoris Causa Doctorate title to Juan Manuel Santos.

Why did Juan Manuel Santos get the Nobel Peace Prize?

The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos “for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50 -year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people.” The conflict is the longest running …

Where is Juan Manuel Santos from?

Bogota, Colombia

Who is the most famous Colombian?

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What was the impact of Nobel laureate Juan Manuel Santos?

The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos “for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50 -year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people.”

How many Nobel prizes has Sweden won?

CountryNumber of Nobel laureates (Number of Nobel Prizes)
Sweden| 32
Japan| 29
Canada| 28
Switzerland| 27