Juan Carlos Echeverry (politician)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Echeverry and the second or maternal family name is Garzón.

Juan Carlos Echeverry
68th Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia
In office 7 August 2010 – 3 September 2012
President	Juan Manuel Santos
Preceded by	Óscar Iván Zuluaga Escobar
Succeeded by	Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María
Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia
In office 27 August 2000 – 7 August 2002
President	Andrés Pastrana Arango
Preceded by	Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María
Succeeded by	Santiago Montenegro Trujillo
Personal details
Born	(1962-09-12) 12 September 1962 Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Spouse	Verónica Navas Ospina (2004-present)
Children	Gabriel Echeverry Navas Gregorio Echeverry Navas
Alma mater	University of the Andes (BA.) New York University (PhD)
Profession	Economist
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Juan Carlos Echeverry Garzón (born 12 September 1962) is a Colombian economist and former president of Ecopetrol, an oil and gas company. He served as the 68th Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia from 2010 to 2012. He is the president of Econcept, a financial consulting firm in Bogotá and is an Associate Professor of Economics at University of the Andes. He was also a visiting professor at IE Business School, Madrid in 2013.

He served as Colombia's Minister of Economic Planning from 2000 to 2002 and held the position of Dean of Economics at the University of the Andes from 2002-2006. He was appointed finance minister by Colombia's President-elect Juan Manuel Santos on June 22, 2010.

Echeverry has a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of the Andes. Echeverry writes a weekly editorial for CNN en Español.