(Bogotá, Colombia, 1951) Juan Manuel Santos is one of the Colombians with the most extensive experience in the public life of his country and the greatest international recognition. He was a cadet at the Admiral Padilla Military Naval School in Cartagena, studied Economics at the University of Kansas and did a postgraduate degree in Economics, Economic Development and Public Administration at London School of Economics and Harvard University. He has served as Minister of Foreign Trade, Minister of Finance and Public Credit and as Minister of National Defence since the 1990s. He was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. In 2016 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He works at the Compaz Foundation whose goal is the consolidation of peace, the reduction of poverty and inequality, and the defence of the environment in Colombia and the planet, areas in which significant progress was made during his government. On March 2019 he published the book La batalla por la paz, in which he tells of the long and difficult process that led to the end of the conflict with the FARC, based on his personal memoirs.