Simón Gaviria Muñoz

{{Short description|Colombian economist and politician}}

{{family name hatnote|Gaviria|Muñoz|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Simón Gaviria Muñoz

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|caption = Congressman Gaviria in 2013.

|office7 = General Director of National Planning

|president7 = Juan Manuel Santos

|term_start7 = {{Start date|2014|08|11|df=yes}}

|term_end7 = {{End date|2017|05|11|df=yes}}

|predecessor7 = Tatyana Orozco

|successor7 = Luis Fernando Mejía

|office8 = President of the Chamber of Representatives

|term_start8 = {{Start date|2011|07|20|df=yes}}

|term_end8 = {{End date|2012|07|20|df=yes}}

|predecessor8 = Carlos Alberto Zuluaga

|successor8 = Augusto Posada Sánchez

|office9 = Member of the Chamber of Representatives

|term_start9 = {{Start date|2006|07|20|df=yes}}

|term_end9 = {{End date|2014|07|20|df=yes}}

|constituency9 = Capital District

|birth_name = Simón Gaviria Muñoz

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|11|24|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia

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|nationality = Colombian

|party = Liberal

|spouse = {{marriage|María Margarita Amín Díaz|2010}}

|parents = {{plainlist|

• César Gaviria
• Ana Milena Muñoz

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|children = {{ubl|Sofía Gaviria Amín|Filipa Gaviria Amín}}

|alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania (BEcon)
Harvard Kennedy School (MPA)

|profession = Economist

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|website = {{URL|http://simongaviria.com.co/}}

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Simón Gaviria Muñoz (born 24 November 1980) is a Colombian economist and politician who served as Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 2006 until 2014. The son of the 28th President of Colombia, César Gaviria, he also served as the Director of the National Planning Department during the second Santos government. He is an economist from the University of Pennsylvania and has a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. He is remembered for voting for the 2012 Justice reform without having read it.

He was elected to the Chamber in 2006 in representation of the Bogotá circumscription as the second-in-line in the electoral list headed by David Luna Sánchez of the For the Country of our Dreams movement that received 103,795 votes in the 2006 legislative elections.{{cite web |url=http://www.congresovisible.org/congresistas/perfil/simon-gaviria-munoz/1219/#tab=4 |title=Simón Gaviria Muñoz: Curriculum |language=es |access-date=2011-08-25 |publisher=Congreso Visible}} In a 2007 survey of RCN TV, he was chosen as "Surprise Representative" for his rapid ascent in high politics and legislative actions, and in 2008 was chosen as "Best Chamber Representative" in another poll by RCN TV and Caracol Radio.{{cite journal |journal=El Espectador |url=http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/politica/articulo-285957-simon-gaviria-munoz |title=Simón Gaviria Muñoz |date=2011-07-20 |access-date=2011-08-25 |language=es }}

In the 2010 legislative elections, this time as a Liberal party candidate and head of the electoral list, he was re-elected with a total of 72,896, the largest margin of votes for any one Representative to the Chamber in 2010, and elected unanimously President of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia for the legislative period 2011–2012 by the Liberal caucus in the chamber.{{cite news |url=http://www.rcnradio.com/node/79490 |title=Liberales proclaman a Simón Gaviria como su candidato a la presidencia de la Cámara |trans-title=Liberals proclaim Simón Gaviria as candidate to the President of the Chamber |date=2011-03-30 |access-date=2011-08-25 |language=es |journal=RCN Radio |first=Karen |last=Leon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404064226/http://www.rcnradio.com/node/79490# |archive-date=2011-04-04 |url-status=dead }}