Alicia Victoria Arango Olmos (born 1 October 1958) is a Colombian politician and businesswoman, who served as the

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and the

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of Colombia. She was previously the private secretary of

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and the nation's ambassador to the

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Biography

Alicia Arango studied

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at the at

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and specialized in public administration at the University of the Andes. She was the Chief of Staff and then assistant chief of staff of Coldeportes, and was later appointed deputy director of the Colombian Institute of Administration. Arango was an adviser to Adelina Covo when she was the Colombian Minister of Education in 1995 and in 1997 to 1998, Arango was a delegate for

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and Cundinamarca Departments (respectively) before the , also while Covo was head of that entity. During the first term of

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as mayor of Bogotá, Arango was the director of the city's District Institute of Recreation and Sports. Arango was appointed to replace

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as Colombia's ambassador to the United Nations, taking her office 9 June 2010. In July 2015, Arango was appointed director of the Democratic Center Party, founded in 2013 by

References

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