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Hernando Agudelo Villa (1923-2010) was a
Colombian lawyer and liberal politician. He was born in
Medellin on 9 March 1923. He was educated at the Ateneo Antioqueño school and the Liceo Antioqueño. He then pursued his higher education in law and political science at the
Universidad de Antioquia
The University of Antioquia ( es, Universidad de Antioquia), also called UdeA, is a public, departmental, coeducational, research university located primarily in the city of Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, with regional campuses in Amalfi, Andes ...
, graduating in 1951. He also did postgraduate studies at the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
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, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
in 1955-56.
He was the director and president of the Federación Nacional de Comerciantes (FENALCO) between 1947 and 1958. He also served in the cabinet as
Minister of Finance
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...
between 1958 and 1961. He served variously as president of the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País and as director of the
Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international financial institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribb ...
. He was a member of the Comité de los Nueve en la Alianza para el Progreso (1962–1964) and a leading liberal in
Antioquia during the 1960s and 1970s. He was a pre-candidate for the presidential election in 1978, which was eventually won by his friend and rival
Julio César Turbay Ayala.
He was one of the key figures behind the left-leaning political group
La Ceja. He wrote several books: ''Cuatro etapas de la inflación en Colombia'', ''La revolución del desarrollo (Alianza para el Progreso)'', ''Hacia un liberalismo moderno'', ''La alternativa: un liberalismo de izquierda'', and ''Retorno del liberalismo''.
He died in
Bogota in July 2010.
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Ministers of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia
Government ministers of Colombia
1923 births
2010 deaths
People from Medellín
University of Antioquia alumni
Alumni of the London School of Economics
20th-century Colombian economists
Colombian expatriates in the United Kingdom