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Christopher Arterton
Dean, The Graduate School of Political Management
The George Washington University
Cordially invites you to an address by
His Excellency Álvaro Colom Caballeros
President of Guatemala
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
11:30 a.m.
Audience should be seated by 11:00 a.m.
The George Washington University
Jack Morton Auditorium
805 21st Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
R.S.V.P. to uevents@gwu.edu
Please include your name and daytime telephone number.
Álvaro Colom Caballeros took the oath of office as Guatemala?s 61st
president in January 2008. He is founder and leader of the Unidad
Nacional de la Esperanza, ?National Union of Hope?, the largest
political party in Guatemala?s history, with more than 75,000 members.
Colom earned notoriety as a peacemaker when he was named executive
director of the National Peace Foundation, FONAPAZ, in 1991. During his
tenure he focused his efforts on social reconciliation and development
in areas of Guatemala that were most affected by the armed conflict of
the 1980s. He contributed to the development of 159 municipalities in a
region known as the Zona de Paz (Peace Zone) and initiated more than
73,000 social development projects. He also facilitated the
repatriation of more than 30,000 Guatemalan refugee families who had
migrated to Mexico during the conflict.
President Colom was born in Guatemala City on June 15, 1951. He earned
a degree as an industrial engineer at the University of San Carlos and
worked in a variety of businesses with a specialty in textiles. A
strong proponent of public and higher education in Guatemala, he served
as vice dean of the faculty of economics at the Universidad Rafael
Landívar in Guatemala.
President Colom is married to Sandra Torres and has three children.
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