FIRST

Message

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Message

Rt Hon Theresa May MP

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Foreword

Rupert Goodman DL

Chairman and Founder, FIRST

If at first you don"t succeed...

HE Juan Manuel Santos

President of the Republic of Colombia

The long road and the promise

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Senior Lecturer in Law and Assistant Dean, Birkbeck, University of London

Building a new Colombia

Jonathan Powell

Director, Inter Mediate

The costs and benefits of peace

Mauricio Cárdenas and Simón Gaviria

Minister of Finance and Public Credit and Director, National Planning Department, Republic of Colombia

Colombia prepares for lift-off

Peter Edyvean and Alastair Harris

Business Correspondent and Publishing Editor, FIRST

Paving the way to prosperity

Luis Fernando Andrade Moreno

President, National Infrastructure Agency, Republic of Colombia

Maintaining the momentum

Bruce Mac Master

President, National Business Association of Colombia

Colombia"s coffee diplomacy

Roberto Vélez

CEO, Natural Coffee Growers Federation, Republic of Colombia

Ambitious plans bearing fruit

Peter Edyvean and Alastair Harris

Business Correspondent and Publishing Editor, FIRST

Keeping Colombia competitive

Eduardo Rodriguez Tamayo

Country Chairman, Shell Colombia, Ecuador, Central America & Caribbean

Rivitalising a Colombian icon

Ian Harebottle

Chief Executive Officer, Gemfields

Building a new consensus

María Ángela Holguín

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Colombia

Different countries, much in common

Malcolm Deas

Emeritus Fellow, St Antony"s College, Oxford University

Partners in development

Alderman The Lord Mountevans

Lord Mayor of the City of London

A strategic partnership

HE Néstor Osorio

Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia to the United Kingdom

Opportunity in diversity

HE Peter Tibber

Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Republic of Colombia

Knowledge: The invisible thread

Professor Eduardo Posada Carbó

Professor of the History and Politics of Latin America, University of Oxford

An historic relationship

Jacques Arnold DL

Special Advisor for Latin America, FIRST

Colombia through the senses

Johanna Zuleta

Arts and Culture Correspondent