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complete name:

Juan Manuel Santos y Calderón

nobel prize:

peace

award year:

2016

prize share:

Prize share: 1/1

rational:

The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end."

biography:

Biography

laureate facts:

Facts

laureate lecture:

Lecture

birth name:

Juan Manuel Santos

given name:

Juan

family name:

Santos

second family name:

Calderón

occupation:

politician

occupation:

economist

occupation:

journalist

description:

Juan Manuel Santos y Calderón is the 32nd and current President of Colombia and sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. An economist by profession and a journalist by trade, Santos is a member of the wealthy and influential Santos family, who from 1913 to 2007 were the majority shareholders of the newspaper El Tiempo until its sale to Planeta DeAgostini in 2007. Shortly after graduating from the University of Kansas, he joined the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia as an economic advisor and delegate to the International Coffee Organization in London, where he also attended the London School of Economics. In 1981, he was appointed deputy director of El Tiempo newspaper, becoming its director two years later. In 1991, he was appointed by President César Gaviria Trujillo as Colombia's first Minister of Foreign Trade. Santos worked in expanding international trade with Colombia, and worked in creating various agencies for this purpose including: Proexport, Bancoldex and Fiducoldex. In 2000, he was appointed by President Andrés Pastrana Arango as the 64th Minister of Finance and Public Credit. Santos rose to prominence during the Administration of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez. In 2005, he co-founded and led the Social Party of National Unity (Party of the U), a liberal-conservative party coalition that backed the policies of President Uribe, successfully supporting his attempt to seek a Constitutional reform to be able to run for a second term. In 2006, after Uribe was re-elected, and the Party of the U won a majority of seats in both chambers of Congress, Santos was appointed Minister of National Defence, and continued defending the security policies of President Uribe, taking a strong and forceful stance against FARC and the other guerrilla groups operating in Colombia. On October 7, 2016, it was announced that Santos will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a peace treaty with the guerillas in the country, despite the unsuccessful referendum held over the deal. (This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Santos and the second or maternal family name is Calderón.)

pronunciation:

(Spanish: [xwan maˈnwel ˈsantos kaldeˈɾon])

image copyright:

Photo: Mads Nissen/Politiken

image citation:

The Nobel Peace Prize 2016. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2016/summary/>

date birth:

1951

usual name:

Juan Santos