# Ministry of National Education (Colombia)

The Ministry of National Education (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación Nacional) is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for overseeing the instruction and education of the Colombian people, similar to education ministries in other countries.

## List of ministers

| Order | Period | Minister of National Education |
| 1st | 1928-1930 | José Vicente Huertas |
| 2nd | 1930-1930 | Elíseo Arango Ramos |
| 3rd | 1930-1931 | Abel Francisco Carbonell Vergara |
| 4th | 1931-1933 | Julio Carrizosa Valenzuela |
| 5th | 1933-1934 | Pedro Maria Carreño Mallarino |
| 6th | 1934-1934 | Jaime Jaramillo Arango |
| 7th | 1934-1934 | Carlos Lozano y Lozano |
| 8th | 1934-1935 | Luis López de Mesa Gómez |
| 9th | 1935-1935 | Calixto Torres Umaña |
| 10th | 1935-1937 | Darío Echandía Olaya |
| 11th | 1937-1937 | Alberto Lleras Camargo |
| 12th | 1937-1937 | Tulio Enrique Tascón Quintero |
| 13th | 1937-1937 | Alejandro López Restrepo |
| 14th | 1937-1938 | José Joaquín Castro Martínez |
| 15th | 1938-1940 | Alfonso Araújo Gaviria |
| 16th | 1940-1941 | Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala |
| 17th | 1941-1941 | Guillermo Nannetti Concha |
| 18th | 1941-1942 | Juan Lozano y Lozano |
| 19th | 1942-1942 | Germán Arciniegas Angueyra |
| 20th | 1942-1942 | Jorge Zalamea Borda |
| 21st | 1942-1943 | Absalón Fernández de Soto |
| 22nd | 1943-1943 | Rafael Parga Cortés |
| 23rd | 1943-1943 | Carlos Lozano y Lozano |
| 24th | 1943-1943 | Carlos Arango Vélez |
| 25th | 1943-1945 | Antonio Rocha Alvira |
| 26th | 1945-1945 | Rafael Escallón |
| 27th | 1945-1945 | Antonio Rocha Alvira |
| 28th | 1945-1946 | Germán Arciniegas Angueyra |
| 29th | 1946-1946 | Mario Carvajal Borrero |
| 30th | 1946-1947 | Miguel Jiménez López |
| 31st | 1947-1947 | Eduardo Zuleta Ángel |
| 32nd | 1947-1948 | Joaquín Estrada Monsalve |
| 33rd | 1948-1948 | Elíseo Arango Ramos |
| 34th | 1948-1949 | Fabio Lozano y Lozano |
| 35th | 1949-1949 | Elíseo Arango Ramos |
| 36th | 1949-1949 | Eleuterio Serna Ramírez |
| 37th | 1949-1950 | Manuel Mosquera Garcés |
| 38th | 1950-1951 | Antonio Álvarez Restrepo |
| 39th | 1951-1952 | Rafael Azula Barrera |
| 40th | 1952-1953 | Lucio Pabón Núñez |
| 41st | 1953-1953 | Jesús Estrada Monsalve |
| 42nd | 1953-1954 | Manuel Mosquera Garcés |
| 43rd | 1954-1954 | Daniel Henao Henao |
| 44th | 1954-1955 | Aurelio Caicedo Ayerbe |
| 45th | 1955-1956 | Gabriel Betancur Mejía |
| 46th | 1956-1957 | Josefina Valencia Muñoz |
| 47th | 1957-1957 | Próspero Carbonell MacAusland |
| 48th | 1957-1958 | Alonso Carvajal Peralta |
| 49th | 1958-1959 | Reinaldo Muñoz Zambrano |
| 50th | 1959-1960 | Abel Naranjo Villegas |
| 51st | 1960-1960 | Gonzalo Vargas Rubiano |
| 52nd | 1960-1960 | Belisario Betancur Cuartas |
| 53rd | 1960-1961 | Alfonso Ocampo Londoño |
| 54th | 1961-1962 | Jaime Posada Díaz |
| 55th | 1962-1965 | Pedro Gómez Valderrama |
| 56th | 1965-1966 | Daniel Arango Jaramillo |
| 57th | 1966-1968 | Gabriel Betancourt Mejía |
| 58th | 1968-1970 | Octavio Arizmendi Posada |
| 59th | 1970-1972 | Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento |
| 60th | 1972-1974 | Juan Jacobo Muñoz |
| 61st | 1974-1977 | Hernando Durán Dussán |
| 62nd | 1977-1978 | Rafael Rivas Posada |
| 63rd | 1978-1980 | Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo |
| 64th | 1980-1981 | Guillermo Angulo Gómez |
| 65th | 1981-1982 | Carlos Albán Holguín |
| 66th | 1986-1988 | Marina Uribe de Eusse |
| 67th | 1988-1989 | Antonio Yepes Parra |
| 68th | 1989-1990 | Manuel Francisco Becerra Barney |
| 69th | 1990-1991 | Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento |
| 70th | 1991-1993 | Carlos Holmes Trujillo García |
| 71st | 1993-1994 | Maruja Pachón Castro |
| 72nd | 1994-1995 | Arturo Sarabia Better |
| 73rd | 1995-1996 | María Emma Mejía Vélez |
| 74th | 1996-1997 | Olga Duque de Ospina |
| 75th | 1997-1998 | Jaime Niño Díez |
| 76th | 1998-2000 | Germán Bula Escobar |
| 77th | 2000-2002 | Francisco José Lloreda Mera |
| 78th | 2002-2010 | Cecilia María Vélez White |
| 79th | 2010-2014 | María Fernanda Campo Saavedra |
| 80th | 2014-2016 | Gina Parody |
| 81st | 2016-2018 | Yaneth Giha Tovar |
| 82nd | 2018–2022 | María Victoria Angulo |
| 83rd | 2022–2023 | Alejandro Gaviria Uribe |
| 84th | 2023–2024 | Aurora Vergara Figueroa |
| 85th | 2024– | Daniel Rojas Medellín |