Juan Manuel Santos

**Juan Manuel Santos Calderón** (born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician. He became the President of Colombia on 7 August 2010. Santos replaces Álvaro Uribe as president.

Santos has distanced himself from Uribe. Santos intends work on the social need of the country. He also wants to improve relations  Colombia's neighbors.

Since winning the presidency in a June 20 landslide, Santos has marked distance between himself and Uribe, signaling the arrival of a leader who, unlike his predecessor, intends to focus on a social agenda and the country's frayed relations with its neighbors. During his inauguration speech, he said > "I will preside over a government of national unity that will bring social prosperity for all Colombians... If we want to have economic and social development, we need to build unity among us."

Santos was schooled in the United States and is familiar with technology. He was a defense minister in the Uribe government. Santos has become well known around the world for trying to end the long conflict in Colombia. In 2016, after a lot of negotiations, he announced a peace deal with the FARC militia, which has been at war with the Colombian government since the 1960s. By June 2016, a peace deal had been reached, and some people have said Santos and the other negotiators may win a Nobel Peace Prize if the peace deal holds. Uribe is against the deal, which he thinks is too easy on FARC.

He is 65 years old, and is from one of the most politically influential families of Colombia. He is married to Maria and has three children.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016

He left office on 7 August 2018 and was replaced by conservative Iván Duque Márquez.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: His Excellency
- **name**: Juan Manuel Santos
- **honorific-suffix**: Order of Prince Henry, GColIH Order of the Bath, GCB Order of Liberty, GColL
- **image**: Juan Manuel Santos and Lula (cropped).jpg
- **office**: List of Presidents of Colombia, 32nd President of Colombia
- **vicepresident**: Angelino Garzón
Germán Vargas Lleras
Oscar Naranjo
- **term start**: 7 August 2010
- **term end**: 7 August 2018
- **predecessor**: Álvaro Uribe
- **successor**: Iván Duque
- **office1**: Pacific Alliance, President _pro tempore_ of the Pacific Alliance
- **term start1**: 30 June 2017
- **term end1**: 24 July 2018
- **predecessor1**: Michelle Bachelet
- **successor1**: Martin Vizcarra
- **term start2**: 23 May 2013
- **term end2**: 20 June 2014
- **predecessor2**: Sebastián Piñera
- **successor2**: Enrique Peña Nieto
- **office3**: Ministry of National Defense (Colombia), Minister of National Defense
- **president3**: Álvaro Uribe
- **term start3**: 19 July 2006
- **term end3**: 18 May 2009
- **predecessor3**: Camilo Ospina Bernal
- **successor3**: Freddy Padilla de León (acting)
- **office4**: Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Colombia), Minister of Finance and Public Credit
- **president4**: Andrés Pastrana Arango
- **term start4**: 7 August 2000
- **term end4**: 7 August 2002
- **predecessor4**: Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar
- **successor4**: Roberto Junguito Bonnet
- **office5**: Ministry of Foreign Trade (Colombia), Minister of Foreign Trade
- **president5**: César Gaviria
- **term start5**: 18 November 1991
- **term end5**: 7 August 1994
- **predecessor5**: Position established
- **successor5**: Daniel Mazuera Gómez
- **office6**: Presidential Designate, Presidential Designate of Colombia
- **president6**: César Gaviria
- **term start6**: 1993
- **term end6**: 1994
- **predecessor6**: Humberto De la Calle
- **successor6**: Position abolished
- **birth name**: Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
- **birth place**: Bogotá, Colombia
- **party**: Colombian Liberal Party, Liberal Party (Before 2005)
Social Party of National Unity (2005–present)
- **spouse**: Silvia Amaya Londoño (divorced)

- **children**: Martín
María Antonia
Esteban
- **alma mater**: University of Kansas
London School of Economics
Tufts University
Harvard University
- **awards**: Nobel Peace Prize (2016 Nobel Peace Prize, 2016)
- **signature**: Juan Manuel Santos Signature.svg
- **branch**: Colombian Navy
- **serviceyears**: 1967–1971