Career
A 1994-1995 Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the candidate of the Colombian Liberal Party, Liberal Party for the 2010 Colombian presidential election, 2010 Presidential Election. On 31 October 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Pardo as the head of the newly created Ministry of Labour (Colombia), Ministry of Labour, established as part of a wider Ministerial Cabinet Reform in order to fulfil some of his 2010 campaign promises. In March 2014, President Santos appointed Minister Pardo as Acting Mayor, acting Mayor of Bogotá, a position he held until April of that year. Pardo is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank The Inter-American Dialogue.Works
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pardo Rueda, Rafael 1953 births People from Bogotá University of Los Andes (Colombia) alumni Colombian economists Colombian Liberal Party politicians Colombian Ministers of Defense Members of the Senate of Colombia Colombian Ministers of Labour Mayors of Bogotá Living people Members of the Inter-American Dialogue