Sandra Urrutia

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Urrutia and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.

Sandra Urrutia
Minister of Information Technologies and Communications
In office
September 5, 2022 – April 26, 2023
PresidentGustavo Petro
Preceded byCarmen Ligia Valderrama
Succeeded byMauricio Lizcano
Personal details
Born
Sandra Milena Urrutia Pérez

(1978-09-20) September 20, 1978 (age 46)
Aquitania, Boyacá, Colombia
Political partyParty of the U
EducationUniversity of Boyacá

Sandra Milena Urrutia Pérez (born September 20, 1978)[1] is a Colombian lawyer specializing in telecommunications and administrative law from 2022 to 2023[2][3] as the Minister of Information and Communication Technologies.[4][5]

Urrutia has held various public and private positions as a telecommunications legal advisor and administrator. In 2002, she began her career in the public sector as a legal adviser to the Superintendence of Residential Public Services and became a director in said entity. Later she was a legal advisor to the Communications Regulation Commission.[6] She was coordinator of surveillance and control of the National Television Authority.[7][8]

Early life

She was born on September 20 in the city of Aquitania in the department of Boyacá. She grew up in the city of Sogamoso, there she studied at the Sugamuxi College from which she graduated as a bachelor in 1995.[9]

She studied law at the University of Boyacá, specialized in Telecommunications Law[10] at the Universidad del Rosario and a master's degree in administrative law at the Universidad Externado.[11]

Trajectory

Between 2014 and 2016 she moved to the private sector as coordinator of regulation, legal management and competition for Telefónica Colombia.[12][13]

In 2016, she was legal advisor to the vice-ministry of connectivity and digitization of the ICT ministry during the mandate of Juan Manuel Santos, with David Luna being the minister and Juan Sebastián Rozo the vice-minister of his area.[14]

In 2019 she directed an investigation area of the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce. Later she was director of fiscal surveillance for the ICT sector in the Comptroller General of the Republic.[15]

Urrutia has been a professor of the master's degree and specialization in ICT Regulation and Management at the Externado University.

Minister of Information Technologies and Communications

She was appointed to lead the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by President Gustavo Petro. She took office on September 5, 2022, twenty days after the start of the government and after the first scheduled appointment of Mery Gutiérrez could not be performed due to a conflict of interest of the designee.[16][17]

Urrutia came to form the cabinet as a political representative of the U Party to whom Petro offered the ministry in order to consolidate the party's support in parliament in the so-called "National Agreement" and after studying various curricula that were presented to her.[18]

Notes

References

  1. ^ "Currículo oficial" (PDF). sic.gov.co. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Se posesionó Sandra Urrutia como Ministra de las TIC". eltiempo.com. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Equipo completo: tomó posesión Sandra Urrutia, la ministra de las TIC de Petro". forbes.co. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Ella es la boyacense que se convirtió en la MinTic del gobierno Petro". caracol.com.co. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  5. ^ "¿Quién es Sandra Milena Urrutia Pérez, la nueva Ministra TIC de Colombia?". enter.co. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Directora de Investigaciones de Protección de Usuarios de Servicios de Comunicaciones". sic.gov.co.
  7. ^ "Sandra Urrutia, perfil". lasillavacia.com. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  8. ^ "Este lunes se posesionará Sandra Urrutia como ministra de las Tic". radionacional.co. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  9. ^ "Esta es la ministra boyacense que tendrá a su cargo las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones". boyaca7dias.com.co. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  10. ^ "¿Quién es Sandra Urrutia Pérez, la nueva ministra Tic?". elespectador.com. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  11. ^ "¡Conoce a la ministra TIC Sandra Urrutia!". mintic.gov.co.
  12. ^ "El encargo de Gustavo Petro a Sandra Milena Urrutia como nueva ministra de las TIC". cambiocolombia.com. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  13. ^ "Conoce el perfil de Sandra Urrutia, nueva ministra de las TIC". canalinstitucional.tv. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  14. ^ "Ya hay ministra de las TIC: Sandra Urrutia fue nombrada en la cartera". portafolio.co. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  15. ^ Tellez Tejada, Noelia (6 September 2022). "Sandra Urrutia Pérez asumió al frente del MinTIC de Colombia". telesemana.com. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  16. ^ "Ministra Sandra Urrutia presentó estrategia para la democratización de las TIC, en Congreso de Andesco". mintic.gov.co. 9 September 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  17. ^ ""Colombia está desconectada en la gran mayoría de áreas": MinTIC". elcolombiano.com. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  18. ^ "La boyacense Sandra Urrutia es la nueva ministra de las TIC". periodicoeldiario.com. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
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Political offices
Preceded by
Carmen Ligia Valderrama
 Minister of Information Technologies and Communications
2022–2023 		Succeeded by
Order of precedence
Preceded by
Susana Correa
as Former Minister of Housing, City and Territory 		Order of precedence of Colombia
as Former Cabinet Member 		Succeeded byas Former Minister of Transport