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Please join the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program, the Center for International & Area Studies, and the Political Science Department as they host Claudia Lopez, (PhD Northwestern University), former Colombian Senator and Mayor of Bogota & Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow at Harvard.

This event delves into the intricate dynamics of globalization, urbanization, climate change, and urban-regional governance, through a panoramic view of world tendencies and specific cases such as Bogotá’s Metropolitan Region.

Claudia Lopez became Bogotá's first female and first lesbian Mayor in the city’s history in 2019. She has an emphatic focus on the environmental, education, social equity and anticorruption agendas. Lopez was a Senator of the Republic of Colombia between 2014 and 2018 and vice-presidential candidate in the 2018 presidential election for the Green Alliance party. The public recognizes her tenacity and enormous capacity for collective action, which was reflected in the fight against corruption by leading a citizen consultancy, a participatory instrument, with historic results. Before entering   her   political   career, Lopez   was   an   accomplished   researcher   and scholar. Lopez   is   a   finance   and   international   relations   graduate   from   Universidad Externado de Colombia, holds a master’s degree in public administration and urban policy from SIPA-Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. Currently, she is an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University."