FIRST

Foreword

Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE

Chairman, FIRST Advisory Council

The new dawn of Colombia

Juan Manuel Santos

President of the Republic of Colombia

Foreword

Jeremy Browne MP

Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom

Messages

HE John Dew and HE Mauricio Rodriquez-Munera

British Ambassador to Colombia and Colombian Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Opportunity and investment

HE Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Colombia

Magnet for foreign investment

HE Sergio Diaz-Granados

Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Colombia

Security of supply and integration

Mauricio Carnedas Santa Maria

Minister of Mines and Energy, Colombia

Colombia"s other "black gold"

Luis Genaro Munoz

CEO, Colombian Coffee Growers Federation – Federación Nacional de Cafeteros (FNC)

Transformational education

HE Maria Fernanda Campo Saavedra

Minister of National Education, Colombia

Conservation and sustainability

HE Frank Pearl

Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia

Colombia"s reindustrialisation

Hernando José Gómez

Director for the Department for National Planning, Colombia

An historic relationship

Jacques Arnold

Special Advisor, Latin America, FIRST