Noemí Sanín

Marta Noemi ( Nohemí ) del Espíritu Santo Sanín Posada de Rubio ( born June 6, 1949 in Medellín, Antioquia ) is a Colombian diplomat and politician, who was repeatedly presidential candidate.

Biography

After schooling, the daughter of the writer, publisher and university teacher Jaime Echeverry Sanín studied law, social and economic science at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and subsequently worked as a lawyer. Here she specialized in commercial and financial law and was also a Fellow at Harvard University.

She then worked in the private sector and was first vice-president in 1976 on loans and in the operational area of the financial undertaking COLMENA. In 1978 she became President of COLMENA and was the first female CEO of such a financial institution in Latin America.

In 1983 she was appointed by President Belisario Betancur for communication minister and held that post until the end of Betancurs tenure in 1986.

Later it was 1988-1990 President of the Corporación Financiera Colombiana, an organization to support companies from different economic sectors.

In 1990, her passion for ambassador to Venezuela. However, from this position it was recalled it and instead appointed by President César Gaviria Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1991 year. After the end of the term of President Gaviria she was again ambassador in Venezuela between 1994 and 1998.

In the presidential elections in Colombia 1998, she ran for election coalition Si Colombia for the first time for the office of President of the Republic, but reached 26.77 percent of the votes after the elected president Andrés Pastrana later ( 34.37 percent) and Horacio Serpa ( 34.78 percent), only the third place in the first ballot.

In 2002 she applied for Si Colombia again for president and came seventh this year with 5.81 percent of the vote after the Álvaro Uribe Vélez elected in the first ballot for President ( 53.05 percent), Horacio Serpa ( 31.8 percent) and Luis Eduardo Garzón ( 6.16 percent), only this time even the fourth.

Despite the competition in the election President Uribe appointed her 2003 Ambassador to Spain, and after 2007-2009 Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Noemi Sanín who is also a member of the Club of Rome, competed in the presidential elections in Colombia in 2010 as representative of the Partido Conservador Colombiano again for the office of President. However, they did not reach the turn -off election, but ended up in the first round cut off after Juan Manuel Santos ( 46.56 per cent), Antanas Mockus ( 21.49 percent), Germán Vargas Lleras ( 10.13 percent) and Gustavo Petro (9, 15 percent) with only 6.14 percent of the vote in fifth place.