Armando Samper Gnecco (9 April 1920 – 14 September 2010) was a Colombian

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and engineer. He served as

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of Colombia in 1966-67 and 1969-70, and was a founding member of the

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, General Director of the Inter-American Institute for Agricultural Sciences (now known as Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture) from 1960 to 1966, and Deputy General Director of FAO for Latin America from 1972 to 1974. Dean of

Jorge Tadeo Lozano University Jorge Tadeo Lozano University is a private university whose main campus is located in Bogotá, Colombia, with satellite campuses in Cartagena, Santa Marta and Chía. Established in 1954, the institution was named after the botanist, scientist a ...

(1971), President of the National Corporation for Forest Research and Development of Colombia, CONIF (1974–1978), and President of the Executive Board and General Director of the Colombian Sugarcane Research Center, Cenicaña (1978–1990). He finished his secondary studies at the

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in Bogotá then moved to the

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to attend

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. From there he transferred to

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where he graduated in 1943 with a

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in Agricultural Economy.

Personal life

Armando was born on 9 April 1920 in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

to Daniel Samper Ortega and María Amalia Gnecco Fallón. He married on 26 July 1945 to Jean Kutschbach, whom he met during his studies in

, and with whom he had four children, Marta, Belén, Mario, and Cristián. САТАН ТОП

References

1920 births 2010 deaths People from Bogotá

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Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni Colombian Ministers of Agriculture 20th-century Colombian politicians {{colombia-politician-stub Gnecco family