Sergio Fajardo
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Sergio Fajardo Valderrama (Spanish pronunciation: [sexjo faalderama]; born 19 June 1956) is a Colombian politician and mathematician. Fajardo served as the Governor of Antioquia from 2012 to 2016. He began campaigning in 2003, when he was elected Mayor of Medellin, Colombia's second-largest city and Antioquia's capital. After losing the runoff against Juan Manuel Santos and Angelino Garzon, Fajardo, the vice presidential candidate of Antanas Mockus in 2010, ending in second place. Fajardo refers to himself as a pragmatic politician with no particular ideology, with political analysts and media outlets in Colombia identifying him as a centrist politician not linked to Colombia's traditional opposition parties.
Fajardo declared his candidacy in the forthcoming 2018 elections in July 2017. Fajardo came third in the first round of the 2018 Colombian presidential race. Fajardo declared in March 2022 that he would campaign for the upcoming 2022 Colombian presidential election. In the first round, he came in fourth place.
Early life and education
Fajardo was born and raised in Medelln, Colombia. He graduated (high school) from the Colegio Benedictino and then moved to Bogotá to earn an undergraduate and a graduate degree (M.Sc.). Mathematics from the University de los Andes in Bogotá. Fajardo completed his doctorate degree in the United States and earned a PhD in mathematics with a minor in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Personal life
Fajardo is the father of Mariana and Alejandro Fajardo Arboleda.
Career
Fajardo taught mathematical logic at the Universidad de los Andes and the Universidad Nacional of Colombia, as well as other bodies, including the National Council of Sciences and the Peace Commission in Antioquia, before entering politics at the age of 40.
Fajardo was elected as Medell's first independent mayor in 2003. During his four-year tenure, he forged a major change in the city, for which he was named best mayor of Colombia in 2007 and has also been recognized for other national and international awards.
Fajardo, a fellow independent politician and mathematician, was vice presidential nominee in 2010 with Antanas Mockus, a mathetician and mathematician. He served as governor of Antioquia from 2012 to 2015. According to the National Planning Department and the Antigraft Office of Colombia, Antioquia had the best national results in open government, transparency, and investment in oil royalties during his administration. In 2015, the organization Colombia Lder named him as the country's best governor.
Fajardo's campaign, which was co-sponsored by Colombia's Coordination, grew with the Green Party, the Polo Democrático, and his movement, Compromiso Ciudadano. Fajardo gained over 4.6 million votes in the first round of polling, just 1.5% behind winning the second round.
Fajardo is a professor at the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Instituto Tecnológico de Montero in Mexico and the School of Political Formation of Compromiso Ciudadano, Colombia. Fajardo, a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, aims to lead a Third Way, inspired by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to bridge the traditional divide on the left-right political spectrum. Fajardo was accused by Colombia's Communist Party of attempting to perpetuate the Colombian neoliberal regime under the guise of moderation and pragmatism.