60 minutes with Gustavo Petro

60 minutes with Gustavo Petro, President of the Republic of Colombia 

Wednesday 9 November 2022 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Amphitheater Chapsal, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume

Registration is compulsory: please register here

The event will also be available online: livestream in English / livestream in Spanish

PSIA is honoured to welcome President Gustavo Petro for an exclusive dialogue with students on the topic "The world in turmoil: a view from Colombia."

>Please note that the lecture will be delivered in Spanish with simultaneous translation to English. Questions can be asked in Spanish or English.

Gustavo Petro was elected as President of the Republic of Colombia in June 2022. He previously served as a Senator from 2018 to 2022 and from 2006 to 2010, and as an elected Representative to the House from 2002 to 2006. In 2012, he was elected Mayor of Bogotá, a position he held until 2015. 

Together with the demobilized combatants of the peace process, Gustavo Petro founded the political party Alianza Democrática M-19, a movement that achieved great popular support and participated in the drafting of the 1991 Constitution. With the support of this movement, Gustavo Petro became a member of the House of Representatives in 1991. In 1994, he was appointed to the Colombian Embassy in Belgium as diplomatic attaché for human rights until 1996.

Gustavo Petro is an economist from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He holds a PhD in New Trends in Business Administration from the University of Salamanca.