{"id":36570,"date":"2025-03-19T23:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/alumni\/fulbright-excellence-award\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:46:28","slug":"fulbright-excellence-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/en\/alumni\/fulbright-excellence-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulbright Excellence Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2dk2i60-17b482284ddff274659f0bb259434e51\">\n.avia-section.av-2dk2i60-17b482284ddff274659f0bb259434e51{\nbackground-color:#0078c8;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6.-Excelencia-HORIZONTAL.webp);\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-position:50% 50%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-2dk2i60-17b482284ddff274659f0bb259434e51 main_color 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itemprop=\"headline\"  >Fulbright Excellence Award<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-1x8ht94-6e9aa03b81dad9319eeb2e0e89cb67f8 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_hr  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-36570'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column_table av-1p5ruk8-ccf5ff891a20b35de4eaccb04002a5e0 sc-av_two_fifth av-equal-height-column-flextable'>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" 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and Colombia\u2019s economic and social development.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, partners of the Commission, members of the Fulbrighters Community, the Board of Directors, and Fulbright staff <strong>nominate individuals who embody the core values of the Fulbright Program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. 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.av-milestone-icon-inner{\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2007-Javier-Botero.jpg);\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  id=\"timeline-linkedin\"  class='avia-timeline-container av-m8gvd51r-1d69e2e4c2b616b8e5743d6cae7c1169 av-slideshow-ui  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last ' ><ul class='avia-timeline avia-timeline-vertical av-milestone-placement-alternate avia-timeline- avia_animate_when_almost_visible avia-timeline-animate'>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8gv6q9w-fc80c87f4749a697ee2304093948278f av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline con-icono-linkedin av-milestone-odd'><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2024-award' ><strong>2024 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><a class='av-milestone-icon-wrap' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/somosmuiskas\/?originalSubdomain=co'  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Jorge Andr\u00e9s Forero Gonz\u00e1lez\" aria-label=\"Jorge Andr\u00e9s Forero Gonz\u00e1lez\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Jorge Andr\u00e9s Forero Gonz\u00e1lez\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Jorge Andr\u00e9s Forero Gonz\u00e1lez<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca Hubert H. Humphrey 2018<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Jorge is an economist from the National University of Colombia, with a Master&#8217;s degree in Political Science from the University of the Andes. He specializes in Rural Development and Peacebuilding at the United States Institute of Peace, University of California-Davis, and the University of Montana. He is also an expert in the design, construction, and implementation of public policies from the State, multilateral organizations, and with indigenous, Black, Afro-Latino, peasant, and urban and rural youth communities and peoples.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8gv84yg-0676efe9e077966bc515ea65acd8e69d av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline con-icono-linkedin av-milestone-even'><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Sandra Valenzuela de Narv\u00e1ez\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Sandra Valenzuela de Narv\u00e1ez<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Fulbright Scholarship for the Study of the Amazon Basin 2001<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Current Executive Director \u2013 WWF Colombia. Lawyer specializing in environmental law, with a Master&#8217;s degree in International Relations and Development Policy from Ohio University. With more than 25 years of professional experience in conservation and social development at the global, regional, national, and local levels, and more than 15 years of experience leading multidisciplinary and multicultural teams in organizations such as Parques Nacionales de Colombia and WWF.  <\/p>\n<p>Sandra has been a facilitator and creator of public and private partnerships to support ethnic and rural communities, women, youth, and children in vulnerable situations, promoting restoration processes, regenerative economies, and the adoption of legal instruments.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2021, she was recognized by the Women Economic Forum (WEF) as Conservation Leader of the Decade.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><a class='av-milestone-icon-wrap' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sandra-valenzuela-558244133\/?locale=es_ES'  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sandra Valenzuela de Narv\u00e1ez\" aria-label=\"Sandra Valenzuela de Narv\u00e1ez\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2023-award' ><strong>2023 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8gv9chm-d4bedc1151925c64603ab6b2d8faa064 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline con-icono-linkedin av-milestone-odd'><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2022-award' ><strong>2022 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><a class='av-milestone-icon-wrap' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/karol-andrea-arias-lloreda-a3031396\/?originalSubdomain=co'  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Karol Arias Lloreda\" aria-label=\"Karol Arias Lloreda\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Karol Arias Lloreda\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Karol Arias Lloreda<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>2014 Fulbright Scholarship for Colombian English Teachers<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Educator with a Master&#8217;s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from ICESI University, Bachelor&#8217;s degree in English and French from the Technological University of Choc\u00f3 (UTCH).<\/p>\n<p>He was awarded the 2014 Fulbright Colombian English Teacher Scholarship (FLTA), which enabled him to teach (supporting the teaching of Spanish as a second language) at St. Thomas University in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Karol was born in Quibd\u00f3 (Choc\u00f3) and has been recognized for the creation and development of Institutional Educational Projects (PEI), the design, planning, and implementation of learning curricula, and the application of best practices and innovation in teaching. In 2015, she founded the first English language academy in Choc\u00f3, Be Smart School. This initiative has strengthened the English skills of more than 1,000 students, of whom more than 110 have achieved the highest scores on the Saber Tests.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8gvalt4-3b610c1a2ba4112c87562b8980510673 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline con-icono-linkedin av-milestone-even'><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Adriana Mar\u00eda Pulido Camargo\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Adriana Mar\u00eda Pulido Camargo<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Fulbright Saldarriaga Concha Scholarship 2011<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Master&#8217;s Degree in Communication<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>She holds a degree in Philology and Languages from the National University of Colombia and a Master&#8217;s degree in Communication from the University of Florida (United States). She is currently a Social Inclusion Advisor for the Physical Rehabilitation Program at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and is also the Colombian Ambassador for OrCam Technologies, promoting an artificial intelligence device that gives greater autonomy to people with visual impairments, allowing them to improve their quality of life. <\/p>\n<p>He worked at the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MinTIC), where he promoted important projects to encourage the inclusion of people with disabilities through the use and appropriation of technology. One of these is ConverTIC: a pioneering global project that enables blind and visually impaired people to use computers independently thanks to the free download and installation of screen reader and magnifier software. <\/p>\n<p>She has worked as a university professor and lecturer on issues of inclusion, accessibility, and universal design. In addition, she is an activist for the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities and is part of the Network of Women with Visual Disabilities, which promotes the empowerment and social inclusion of blind or low-vision women in Colombia.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><a class='av-milestone-icon-wrap' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/adrianapulidoc\/?originalSubdomain=co'  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Adriana Mar\u00eda Pulido Camargo\" aria-label=\"Adriana Mar\u00eda Pulido Camargo\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2021-award' ><strong>2021 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-de0fb585a13c31eb8629a790df675b4c av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline av-milestone-odd'><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2020-award' ><strong>2020 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><div class=\"av-milestone-icon-wrap\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Clemente Forero Pineda\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Clemente Forero Pineda<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca J.William Fulbright 1968 \/ Ph.D. en Civil Engeneering 1958<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Civil Engineer from the Institut National de Sciences Appliqu\u00e9es \u2013 INSA (Lyon, France). Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. He has been a professor at the Universidad de los Andes since 2001 and is one of the 42 members of the Mission of Wise Men appointed by President Iv\u00e1n Duque to work on the development of science, technology, and innovation in the country, specifically forming the group in the area of social sciences for human development and equity.  <\/p>\n<p>He was also a professor at the National University, Visiting Professor at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, President of the National Council for Participatory Planning in Bogot\u00e1 (1990), and Director General of Colciencias. Dr. Forero has made significant contributions to scientific studies on public policy; public administration studies; innovation and industry; violence, insecurity, and contingent cooperation; organizational hybrids, conflict, and regional development. <\/p>\n<p>Among the honors received by Dr. Clemente, both nationally and internationally, the following stand out: Emeritus Researcher recognized by Colciencias \u2013 Call 737 of 2015; Honorary Professor, National University of Colombia, 1999; Palmes Acad\u00e9miques, French government, 1995; Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Award for Economic Journalism, Seguros Bol\u00edvar, 1978; and University Medal of Merit.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-12-056e69145530850261b77d12e904d10e av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline con-icono-linkedin av-milestone-even'><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Andr\u00e9s Jaramillo Botero\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Andr\u00e9s Jaramillo Botero<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Fulbright ICETEX Scholarship 1990 \u2013 Master&#8217;s Degree in Computer Science<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Electrical Engineer from Boston University (1986), Master&#8217;s Degree in Computer Science as a Fulbright Scholar from the State University of New York (1990), and Doctorate in Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1998). He developed his doctoral dissertation as a visiting researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) between 1996 and 1997, and postdoctoral work in Nanoscale Science as a NSF (National Science Foundation) fellow at Caltech and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), between 2002 and 2005. <\/p>\n<p>He joined Caltech full-time in 2006 as a Research Scientist and Director of Science and Multiscale Simulation at the Materials and Processes Simulation Center (MSC) in the Chemistry Division. There, he has been the leader\/co-leader of multiple research programs funded by the U.S. government (DOE, DOD, DOT, NSF, and NASA, among other national agencies) and applied research efforts funded by national and international industry, as well as the lead author of numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications and patents. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jaramillo-Botero has been a member of the academic community at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) since 1990, where he became a tenured professor in 1999 and was inducted into the Javeriana honor society in 2001.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><a class='av-milestone-icon-wrap' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/andres-jaramillo-botero-24a65725\/'  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Andr\u00e9s Jaramillo Botero\" aria-label=\"Andr\u00e9s Jaramillo Botero\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2019-award' ><strong>2019 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-11-d5117f122775eb18c6929bc3715219f4 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline con-icono-linkedin av-milestone-odd'><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2018-award' ><strong>2018 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><a class='av-milestone-icon-wrap' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brigitte-baptiste-489a2418\/?originalSubdomain=co'  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Brigitte Baptiste\" aria-label=\"Brigitte Baptiste\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Brigitte Baptiste\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Brigitte Baptiste<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>1991 Fulbright Laspau Scholarship \u2013 Master&#8217;s Degree in Tropical Conservation and Development <\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>She holds a degree in Biology from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and a master&#8217;s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida. She spent her early years as a researcher in the Rural Studies Unit of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Javeriana University, where she began her teaching career in the Master&#8217;s programs in Rural Development and Environmental Management at the same university. She has participated in numerous national projects on conservation and environmental planning, cultural landscapes, analysis of land transformation processes, ecological and economic history of production systems, multicultural analysis of biodiversity use and management, biocomplexity, biospeleology, and biopolitics. She is also interested in gender and cultural issues.   <\/p>\n<p>She was director of the Humboldt Institute, representing Colombia&#8217;s scientific authority at the time before the International Convention on Wildlife Trade (CITES). She currently serves as rector of EAN University, becoming the first transgender woman in the country to hold that position.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-10-d16caec61b3f0742de970741ff9a8fde av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline av-milestone-even'><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Juan Manuel Santos\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Juan Manuel Santos<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca Fulbright Fletcher 1980 \u2013 Inv. &amp; Doc. Public Administration  <\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Juan Manuel Santos, former Fulbright scholar, President of Colombia (2010-2014, 2014-2018) and Nobel Peace Prize winner, In 1981, Santos was a beneficiary of the Fulbright Fletcher Visiting Fellows Program, a professional development program that allowed him to take graduate courses in public administration at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Harvard University, and M.I.T.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, he was the special guest at the Fulbright Scholarship Award Ceremony, where he stated that Fulbright&#8217;s work is &#8220;a priceless contribution&#8221; because &#8220;the best contribution one can give to a country is its human capital, its education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is an economist and business administrator from the University of Kansas, with postgraduate studies in economics and economic development from the London School of Economics, and was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Throughout his career, he has held several public positions. For nine years, he represented the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia before the International Coffee Organization in London, was deputy director of El Tiempo, and served as Minister of Foreign Trade in 1991. In 2000, he was appointed Minister of Finance. In 2006, he was appointed Minister of Defense until May 2009, when he retired to run for president.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><div class=\"av-milestone-icon-wrap\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2016-award' ><strong>2016 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-9-a1a0f38b1446930c29a1ebf086af1ba7 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline av-milestone-odd'><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2015-award' ><strong>2015 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><div class=\"av-milestone-icon-wrap\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Helena Alviar\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Helena Alviar<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca J.William Fulbright 1996 \u2013 Master\u2019s Law<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Dr. Helena Alviar Garc\u00eda is a lawyer from the University of the Andes, specializing in Financial Law from the same university. She holds a Master&#8217;s degree in Law and a PhD in Economic Law and Gender from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was a Fulbright scholar between 1996 and 1997, during which time she completed her postgraduate studies at Harvard University. She has taught and lectured at several universities, including Harvard Law School, United States; Brown University, United States; University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States; University of Turin, Italy; and the University for Peace, Ciudad Col\u00f3n, Costa Rica. In August 2001, she joined the Los Andes Law School as a full-time professor. She was Dean of the Law School at the University of Los Andes and is currently a tenured professor at that university.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-8-a9755e62975430394702eb9482f074c7 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline av-milestone-even'><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Paula Marcela Moreno\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Paula Marcela Moreno<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca Hubert H. Humphrey 2010 \u2013 Urban &amp; Regional Planning<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Paula Moreno is a former Fulbright scholar of the Hubert H. Humphrey Program in 2010, who studied Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was also the youngest minister in Colombia&#8217;s history and the first Afro-Colombian woman to hold a ministerial position. Among her awards are the Cross of Boyac\u00e1 and the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest distinctions of the Colombian and Mexican governments, respectively. In 2014, she was selected by the BBC as one of the 100 most important women in the world, and in the same year, SEMANA magazine and the Leadership and Democracy Foundation recognized her as one of the most important leaders in the country. She is currently a founding partner and president of the Manos Visibles Organization.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><div class=\"av-milestone-icon-wrap\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2014-award' ><strong>2014 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-7-be4873f0762ba21e60f24132d0c78352 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline con-icono-linkedin av-milestone-odd'><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2013-award' ><strong>2013 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><a class='av-milestone-icon-wrap' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juan-carlos-esguerra-portocarrero-549b45134\/?originalSubdomain=co'  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Juan Carlos Esguerra\" aria-label=\"Juan Carlos Esguerra\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Juan Carlos Esguerra\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Juan Carlos Esguerra<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca J.William Fulbright 1972 \u2013 Master\u2019s Financial Law<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Juan Carlos Esguerra is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, a specialist in socio-economic sciences from the same university, and holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from Cornell University. In addition to serving as Minister of Justice and Law, he was Secretary General and Deputy Minister of Communications, Delegate to the National Constituent Assembly, Minister of National Defense, and Ambassador of Colombia to the United States between 1997 and 1998. From 1991 to 1995, he was Dean of the Faculty of Legal Sciences at Javeriana University. Since 1992, he has also been a member of the Advisory Council of the Cornell University Law School. On two occasions (2004 and 2006), he has served as an ad hoc judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and has been an associate judge of the Council of State and the Constitutional Court on several occasions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-6-970113acc24d295a0ec1092e13ddbb19 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline av-milestone-even'><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Pedro Vicente Obando\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Pedro Vicente Obando<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca Fulbright Laspau 1980 \u2013 Master\u2019s Linguistics.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Beca Fulbright Laspau 1988 \u2013 Ph.D. Education<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Dr. Pedro Obando was born in Pasto in 1947 and graduated with a degree in modern languages from the University of Nari\u00f1o. He then went on to earn a master&#8217;s degree in linguistics from Southern Illinois University, thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, and a doctorate in ethnolinguistics from the University of Texas. In 2011, he completed a master&#8217;s degree in politics at the Externado University. He has spent most of his career within the University of Nari\u00f1o system, first as director of the university&#8217;s high school, then as head of the Language Department and dean of the Faculty of Education, and finally as academic and administrative vice-rector. In 1995, he was appointed rector of the university, a position he held for a decade, and was recognized for transforming it into a quality institution, expanding its infrastructure, and establishing a direct election process for the rector. He was mayor of Pasto from 2016 to 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><div class=\"av-milestone-icon-wrap\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2012-award' ><strong>2012 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-5-33b3bc76c2e0ebc2492e32f05fe646b6 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline con-icono-linkedin av-milestone-odd'><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2011-award' ><strong>2011 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><a class='av-milestone-icon-wrap' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juanantoniocuellar\/?originalSubdomain=co'  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Juan Antonio Cu\u00e9llar\" aria-label=\"Juan Antonio Cu\u00e9llar\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Juan Antonio Cu\u00e9llar\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Juan Antonio Cu\u00e9llar<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca J.William Fulbright 1996 \u2013 Master\u2019s Music<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Dr. Juan Antonio Cu\u00e9llar is a musician from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Thanks to the J. William Fulbright Scholarship, he obtained his Master&#8217;s Degree in Music Composition at Indiana University and later completed a Ph.D. in Music Composition at the same university. He has received several awards for his work, including the National Composition Prize from the District Institute of Culture and Tourism of Bogot\u00e1, the Indiana University Dean&#8217;s Prize in Composition, the Arte de la M\u00fasica Composition Prize, and the Kuttner String Quartet Composition Competition. He has also taught theory and composition at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the Indiana University School of Music. For several years, he served as Academic Dean of the Faculty of Visual Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He served as Executive Director of the Batuta Foundation and is currently a professor at the Universidad Javeriana.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-4-6ad11b94beea007070415136f0837ef4 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline con-icono-linkedin av-milestone-even'><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Patricia Cardoso\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Patricia Cardoso<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca J.William Fulbright 1987 \u2013 Master\u2019s Filmmaking<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Filmmaker Patricia Cardoso studied anthropology at the University of Los Andes. In 1987, she won the J. William Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a master&#8217;s degree at the UCLA School of Film and graduated in 1994. In 1996, she was the first person in Colombia to receive an Oscar, the Student Academy Award, for the short film &#8220;El reino de los cielos&#8221; (The Kingdom of Heaven). As an archaeologist, she taught at Javeriana University and was deputy director of the Colombian Institute of Culture. She has worked at the Sundance Film Festival, where she became director of Latin American Programs. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America, where only four percent of members are women. She currently teaches at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><a class='av-milestone-icon-wrap' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/patricia-cardoso-29822526\/'  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Patricia Cardoso\" aria-label=\"Patricia Cardoso\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2010-award' ><strong>2010 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-3-16322bb9d2058d2b8fbfe337cc0ce473 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline av-milestone-odd'><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2009-award' ><strong>2009 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><div class=\"av-milestone-icon-wrap\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Bernardo Hoyos (qepd)\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Bernardo Hoyos (qepd)<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca J.William Fulbright 1959 \u2013 Master\u2019s Comparative Law<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Bernardo Hoyos was born in Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, in 1934. He was a lawyer by profession and a cultural journalist by vocation. In 1958, thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, he completed a Master&#8217;s Degree in Comparative Law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Among other positions, he worked as a broadcaster and reporter for the BBC in London, Director of the Spanish edition of International Management magazine, Director of Radio Bolivariana, Cultural Director of RTI Television, and Cultural Advisor to Caracol Radio. From 1999, he was Director of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University radio station (HJUT). During his professional career, he received recognition from the Medell\u00edn Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Education, and was awarded five Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Prizes, including the Grand Prize for Life and Work in 2008 in recognition of his 55-year career dedicated to cultural journalism.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-2-4015793b2f843127d948fa97495ba104 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline av-milestone-even'><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Ram\u00f3n Fayad\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Ram\u00f3n Fayad<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca J.William Fulbright 1976 -Ph.D. Molecular Biology <\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Dr. Ram\u00f3n Fayad holds a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Physics, a Master&#8217;s degree in Physics from the University of Puerto Rico, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Biophysics) from Lehigh University. At the National University of Colombia, he was head of the biophysics section (1980-1985), director of the Scientific Research and Development Committee (1982-1984), Secretary General (2003-2005), and Rector (2005-2006). He was Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of the Andes (1993-1997) and is currently a Full Professor in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Rosario. He has received several national and international awards, including the Javeriana National Medal for Educational Merit, a distinction for exceptional teaching at the National University and the Rosario University, and a distinction for academic and administrative contributions to the National University. He is a member of the Program Advisory Committee of the Fulbright Commission Colombia.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><div class=\"av-milestone-icon-wrap\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2008-award' ><strong>2008 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><\/li>\n<li  class='av-milestone av-m8hdjtti-1-4cb74f65d5532deeb5cb011da633eee2 av-animated-generic fade-in av-milestone-valign-baseline con-icono-linkedin av-milestone-odd'><h2 class='av-milestone-date ' id='milestone-2007-award' ><strong>2007 Award<span class='av-milestone-indicator'><\/span><\/strong><\/h2><a class='av-milestone-icon-wrap' href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/javier-botero-85926634\/?originalSubdomain=co'  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Javier Botero\" aria-label=\"Javier Botero\"><span class='av-milestone-icon milestone_icon milestone-icon-hasborder'><span class='av-milestone-icon-inner milestone_inner'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/a><article class='av-milestone-content-wrap'><div class='av-milestone-contentbox'><header class=\"entry-content-header\" aria-label=\"Milestone: Javier Botero\"><h4 class='av-milestone-title '>Javier Botero<\/h4><\/header><div class='av-milestone-content'><h5><strong>Beca J.William Fulbright 1982 \u2013 <\/strong><strong>Ph.D. Physics.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>He was born in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, on May 5, 1960; he graduated as a Civil Engineer from the Colombian School of Engineering in 1981 in Bogot\u00e1, and, as a Fulbright Commission Scholar in 1982, he obtained a Doctorate in Physics in 1986 from Louisiana State University. He created the Center for Research and Special Studies at the Colombian School of Engineering, where he later served as Academic Vice-Rector between 1997 and 2001. In 2002, he was appointed to head the Higher Education Directorate of the Ministry of National Education, and a month later he was named Deputy Minister of National Education and then Deputy Minister of Higher Education. Since September 2013, he has been a Senior Education Specialist for Latin America at the World Bank.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class='av-milestone-article-footer entry-footer'><\/footer><\/article><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":36505,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36573,"href":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36570\/revisions\/36573"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulbright.edu.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}