María Fernanda Campo Saavedra

María Fernanda Campo Saavedra
Minister Campo in 2011.
Minister of National Education of Colombia
In office 7 August 2010 (2010-08-07) – August 2014
President	Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by	Cecilia María Vélez
Succeeded by	Gina Parody
Personal details
Born	Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Alma mater	University of the Andes (BSc) Kogod School of Business (MFin)
Profession	Industrial Engineer

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

María Fernanda Campo Saavedra is the former minister of education of Colombia until August 2014. In 2011 she was appointed Acting Mayor of Bogotá by President Juan Manuel Santos in replacement of Samuel Moreno Rojas, who was stripped of his office following an investigation into the appropriation of city contracts. An industrial engineer, before her nomination she was the President of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce from 2000 to 2010, the first woman to hold that position, and has also served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1998 and 1999.

External links

• "Official Profile of Minister Campo" (in Spanish). Office of the President of Colombia. Archived from the original on 2010-12-21. Retrieved 2010-10-23.