Simón Gaviria Muñoz
Simón Gaviria Muñoz | |
|---|---|
| General Director of National Planning | |
| In office 11 August 2014 – 11 May 2017 | |
| President | Juan Manuel Santos |
| Preceded by | Tatyana Orozco |
| Succeeded by | Luis Fernando Mejía |
| President of the Chamber of Representatives | |
| In office 20 July 2011 – 20 July 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Carlos Alberto Zuluaga |
| Succeeded by | Augusto Posada Sánchez |
| Member of the Chamber of Representatives | |
| In office 20 July 2006 – 20 July 2014 | |
| Constituency | Capital District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Simón Gaviria Muñoz 24 November 1980 Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse |
María Margarita Amín Díaz
(m. 2010) |
| Children |
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| Parents | |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (BEcon) Harvard Kennedy School (MPA) |
| Profession | Economist |
| Website | simongaviria |
Simón Gaviria Muñoz (born 24 November 1980) is a Colombian economist and politician who served as Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 2006 until 2014. The son of the 28th President of Colombia, César Gaviria, he also served as the Director of the National Planning Department during the second Santos government. He is an economist from the University of Pennsylvania and has a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. He is remembered for voting for the 2012 Justice reform without having read it.
He was elected to the Chamber in 2006 in representation of the Bogotá circumscription as the second-in-line in the electoral list headed by David Luna Sánchez of the For the Country of our Dreams movement that received 103,795 votes in the 2006 legislative elections. In a 2007 survey of RCN TV, he was chosen as "Surprise Representative" for his rapid ascent in high politics and legislative actions, and in 2008 was chosen as "Best Chamber Representative" in another poll by RCN TV and Caracol Radio.
In the 2010 legislative elections, this time as a Liberal party candidate and head of the electoral list, he was re-elected with a total of 72,896, the largest margin of votes for any one Representative to the Chamber in 2010, and elected unanimously President of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia for the legislative period 2011–2012 by the Liberal caucus in the chamber.