Ministry of Mines and Energy (Colombia)

Ministry of Mines and Energy

Ministerio de Minas y Energía
Ministry overview
Formed	10 April 1974
Preceding Ministry	Ministry of Mines and Petroleum
Headquarters	Calle 43 № 57-31 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 04°38′48.47″N 74°05′42.85″W / 4.6467972°N 74.0952361°W
Annual budget	COP$2,063,543,897,000 (2012)[1] COP$2,656,258,850,000 (2013)[2] COP$2,329,515,413,000 (2014)[3]
Ministry executives	Amilkar Acosta Medina, Minister César Diaz Guerrero, Deputy Minister of Mines Orlando Enrique Cabrales Segovia, Deputy Minister of Energy
Child agencies	ANM ANH CREG IPSE SGC UPME
Website	www.minminas.gov.co

The Ministry of Mines and Energy (Spanish: Ministerio de Minas y Energía) is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia that oversees the regulation of the mining and mineral industry and the electricity sector in Colombia, it is similar in its duties to other energy ministries of other countries.

List of Ministers

Order	Minister	Years served
1st	Gerardo Silva Valderrama	1973-1974
2nd	Eduardo del Hierro Santacruz	1974-1975
3rd	Juan José Turbay Abunader	1975-1975
4th	Jaime García Parra	1975-1977
5th	Miguel Urrutia Montoya	1977-1977
6th	Eduardo Gaitán Durán	1977-1978
7th	Alberto Vásquez Restrepo	1978-1980
8th	Humberto Ávila Mora	1980-1981
9th	Carlos Rodado Noriega	1981-1982
10th	Carlos Martínez Simahan	1982-1984
11th	Alvaro Leyva Durán	1984-1985
12th	Iván Duque Escobar	1985-1986
13th	Guillermo Perry Rubio	1986-1988
14th	Oscar Mejía Vallejo	1988-1989
15th	Margarita Mena de Quevedo	1989-1990
16th	Luis Fernando Vergara Munárriz	1990-1991
17th	Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar	1991-1992
18th	Guido Alberto Nule Amín	1992-1994
19th	Jorge Eduardo Cock Londoño	1994-1995
20th	Rodrigo Villamizar Alvargonzález	1995-1997
21st	Orlando José Cabrales Martinez	1997-1998
22nd	Luis Carlos Valenzuela Delgado	1998-2000
23rd	Carlos Eduardo Caballero Argáez	2000-2001
24th	Luis Ramiro Valencia Cossio	2001-2001
25th	Luisa Fernanda Lafaurie Rivera	2001-2002
26th	Luis Ernesto Mejía Castro	2002-2006
27th	Hernán Martínez Torres	2006-2010
28th	Carlos Rodado Noriega	2010-2011
29th	Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María	2011-2012
30th	Federico Renjifo Vélez	2012-2013
31st	Amilkar Acosta Medina	2013-present

References

1. Colombia, Congress of (14 December 2011). "Ley 1485 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). Bogotá (48,283): 8. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
2. Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). Bogotá (48,640): 9. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
3. Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). Bogotá (49,001): 6. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 8 January 2014.