Clara Eugenia López Obregón (born April 12, 1950) is a Colombian politician who was the Minister for Employment. She also served as

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Mayor of Bogotá from 2011 to 2012. A

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-trained economist, she was the Alternative Democratic Pole's nominee for President of Colombia in the 2014 election. López is also a University of Los Andes-trained lawyer with a doctorate from the University of Salamanca, and served as the sixth

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from 2003 to 2005.

Personal life

López was born on 12 April 1950 in Bogotá, Colombia to Álvaro López Holguín (grandson of Alfonso López Pumarejo) and Cecilia Obregón Rocha. (cousin of painter

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) She attended

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in Bogotá, but was later sent to live in McLean, Virginia in the United States, where she attended the

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, a prestigious preparatory boarding school for girls. After graduating high school in 1968, she attended Harvard University where she became an active participant in the student movement opposed to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. She graduated with an A.B. ''

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'' in June 1972. She was married on 13 September 1980 in Tenjo, Cundinamarca to Edmond Jacques Courtois Miller, a wealthy Canadian banker whom she met while in Harvard, but they later divorced after Courtois was charged and pleaded guilty to

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charges in New York in 1983, having peddled confidential takeover information while a vice president at Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions department from 1974 to 1977. She later remarried to Carlos Romero Jiménez, whom she met while they both served in the Bogotá City Council. She has no children.

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Biography by CIDOB
1950 births Living people Clara Holguín family Anti–Vietnam War activists Harvard University alumni University of Los Andes (Colombia) alumni University of Salamanca alumni Colombian economists Colombian women lawyers Colombian women in politics New Liberalism (Colombia) politicians Patriotic Union (Colombia) politicians Alternative Democratic Pole politicians Mayors of Bogotá Candidates for President of Colombia 20th-century Colombian lawyers 20th-century women lawyers {{colombia-politician-stub