Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde (born c. 1966) is a Colombian lawyer and diplomat who served as

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) ( es, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores) also known as the Chancellery ( es, Cancílleria), is the Cabinet position of the Government of Colombia responsible for the international relations of Colombia thr ...

from 2008 to 2010.

Career

Jaime Bermúdez graduated from Gimnasio de los Cerros in 1983.Noticias - Gimnasio de Los Cerros
/ref> He attended University of the Andes, and graduated in Law in 1992. He later obtained a Chevening Scholarship to study for a

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degree from

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. Between 1991 and 1993, Jaime Bermúdez was adviser to the Colombian government's ''Consejería de Derechos Humanos'' (Human Rights Committee) and the

Minister of Foreign Affairs A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between cou ...

. Between 1993 and 1994 he was coordinator of the "Good Neighbors Commission". In 1994 he was a UN-appointed observer of the presidential elections in

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. In 1996 was executive director of the ''Consorcio Iberoamericano de Investigaciones de Mercado, CIMA.''Press Release
Jaime Bermúdez: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores
''Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Colombia)''". Between 2002 and 2006, Bermúdez was a communications adviser to President

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whom he met around 1998 while they were both students at Oxford University. He was then named as Colombian ambassador to

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, a position that he held from August 26, 2006 to July 9, 2008.

Publications

As a member of the "Good Neighbors Commission", Bermúdez edited the book ''Colombia–Venezuela, un nuevo esquema bilateral'' (''Colombia–Venezuela, A New Bilateral Framework''). Together with Cynthia Arnson, he collaborated on the report "Los procesos de paz en Colombia: Múltiples negociaciones, múltiples actores" ("The Peace Process in Colombia: Multiple Negotiations, Multiple Actors").Cynthia J. Arnson, et al.
Los procesos de paz en Colombia: Múltiples negociaciones, múltiples actores
" ''Woodrow Wilson School - Latin American Program Special Report'' January 2007 Bermúdez has been a contributor to the Colombian publications '' Estrategia y Economía'' and '' Revista Diners''.

References

External links

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Jaime Bermúdez Sería El Nuevo Canciller
. ''El Tiempo''. (June 9, 2008) *
Foreign Minister Araújo resigns
. ''Colombia reports''. (July 16, 2008) *

Secretaria de Prensa, Presidencia de la Republica. July 17, 2008 *

ABC.
Interview for Argentinian TV

Designation ceremony
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bermudez, Jaime 1966 births Living people People from Bogotá 20th-century Colombian lawyers Foreign ministers of Colombia Ambassadors of Colombia to Argentina Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford University of Los Andes (Colombia) alumni Chevening Scholars