Colombia Trek
Tory Ragsdale, MBA ’10, and Ekta Chandra, MBA ’11, both Johnson School bloggers, wrote eloquently about their spring break study trip to Colombia, including their tour of Bogotá with Universidad de los Andes students, and their meetings with several Colombian leaders, including President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe, Vice President Francisco Santos, and Pedro Medina, president of the Yo Creo en Colombia (I believe in Colombia) Foundation. “After a tour of the presidential palace, President Uribe spent an hour with our group sharing the challenges and opportunities of creating progressive government policies domestically and promoting investor confidence internationally,” writes Ragsdale. “The President’s visit was not only enlightening for its reminder of what national leaders face within their roles … but was also instructive for observing what effective leadership looks like within senior national offices in Latin America.”
“For me, Colombia meant drug wars, guerilla warfare and a banana republic,” writes Chandra. “To my pleasant surprise, it was exactly the opposite. Bogota can give competition to any big city in the world. Colombian people are [among] the warmest and savviest I have ever met, and the passion, intellect, and courage of President Uribe can easily make him a leadership icon across the world.”
Johnson School students and faculty meeting
with President Uribe of Colombia
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