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Juan Carlos Echeverry Garzón (born 12 September 1962) is a Colombian economist and the president of Ecopetrol, an oil and gas company. He served as the 68th Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia. He is the president of Econcept, a financial consulting firm in Bogotá and is an Associate Professor of Economics at University of the Andes. He was also a visiting professor at IE Business School, Madrid in 2013.
He served as Colombia’s Minister of Economic Planning from 2000 to 2002 and held the position of Dean of Economics at the University of the Andes from 2002-2006. He was appointed finance minister by Colombia's President-elect Juan Manuel Santos on June 22, 2010.
Echeverry has a Ph.D. in Economics from New York Universityand a B.A. in Economics from the University of the Andes. Echeverry writes a weekly editorial for CNN en Español.