Mauricio Cárdenas
Professor of Professional Practice in Global Leadership in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Mauricio Cárdenas is Professor of Professional Practice in Global Leadership in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and Director of the MPA in Global Leadership. He is also affiliated with Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy where he conducts research on energy and climate policy. He was Colombia’s finance minister between 2012 and 2018, implementing major fiscal reforms, and was recognised by Euromoney as finance minister of the year in 2015. He has also held other ministerial portfolios: economic development, transport, planning, mines and energy.
