Miguel Urrutia Montoya (born 20 April 1939) is a Colombian economist and author, currently serving as Titular Professor of Economics at the University of the Andes

University of the Andes, Colombia

The University of the Andes , is a coeducational, nonsectarian private university located in city centre Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1948, the University has 9 faculties: Administration, Architecture and Design, Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Engineering and...

 in Bogotá

Bogotá

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. He served as 12th Bank of the Republic (Colombia)General Manager of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia from 1993 to 2004, and as 5th Ministry of Mines and Energy (Colombia)Colombian Minister of Mines and Energy in 1977 during the administration of Alfonso López Michelsen

Alfonso López Michelsen

Alfonso López Michelsen was a Colombian politician, lawyer and journalist. Lopez Michelsen was President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was the son of Alfonso López Pumarejo, who was also president of Colombia from 1934 to 1938, and once again from 1942 to 1945...

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Background

Urrutia finished his secondary education

Secondary education

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 at Portsmouth Priory School

Portsmouth Abbey School

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, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island

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, where he graduated in 1957 with Bachiller cum laude. He then attended Harvard University

Harvard University

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 graduating magna cum laude in 1961 with Bachelor of Economics. He continued to pursue his studies at the received a University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, where he obtained his Master of Economics

Master of Economics

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 in 1964, and his Phd

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 in Economics in 1967 with his dissertation on Labour Unions in Colombia

Trade unions in Colombia

see also Human rights in ColombiaTrade unions in Colombia were until around 1990 among the strongest in Latin America. However the 1980s expansion of paramilitarism in Colombia saw trade union leaders and members increasingly targeted for assassination, and as a result Colombia has been the most...

, published by Yale University Press

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 under the title History of Colombian Labor Movement. In 1982 he served as Deputy Rector of United Nations University

United Nations University

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 in Tokyo

Tokyo

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, Japan

Japan

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Personal life

Miguel Urrutia Montoya was born 20 April 1939 in Bogotá, D.C. to Francisco José Urrutia Holguín

Francisco José Urrutia Holguín

Francisco José Urrutia Holguín was a Colombian-Ecuadorian lawyer and diplomat. He served as 7th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, 11th Colombia Ambassador to United States, as well as Ambassador to Venezuela and Argentina.-Personal life:Francisco José Urrutia Holguín was...

and Genoveva Montoya Williamson. He married Elsa Pombo Kopp in Bogotá on 3 August 1963, and together they have three children: Elena, Santiago, and Isabel.