Mayor Gustavo Petro on Monday announced that half of the new Bogota district government will consist of women.
Of the 14 appointed executive officials, seven are men and seven are women.
Bogota Capital District government
Chief of Staff – Eduardo Noriega
Former director of the Colombian National Television Commission
Government Secretary – Antonio Navarro Wolff
Former M-19 guerrilla and governor of the southern Nariño department
Economic Development Secretary – Jorge Pulecio
Former economy professor at Spain’s National University
Health Secretary – Guillermo Jaramillo
Former senator and governor of the Tolima department
Environment Secretary – Margarita Florez
Attorney, former investigator at the Latin American Institute for an Alternative Society and an Alternative Law
Education Secretary – Oscar Gustavo Sanchez Jaramillo
Former adviser at the Ministry of Education
Transport Secretary – Ana Luisa Flechas
Former professor in mobility and transport at the National University in Bogota
Culture Secretary – Clarisa Ruiz Correal
Former Head of Arts at the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and cultural attaché in France
Housing Secretary – Maria Claudia Valencia Gaitan
Granddaughter of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan
Social Integration Secretary – Maria Consuelo Ahumada Beltran
Political scientist, specialized in Latin American democracies
Planning Secretary – María Mercedes Maldonado
Former member of U.S. think tank Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Director Urban Development Institute – María Fernanda Rojas
Political scientist
General Management Water Supply and Sewerage – Diego Bravo Borda
General Management TransMilenio – Carlos Garcia
Special Administrative Public Services Unit – Guillermo Asprilla