There Will Never Be a Perfect Peace in Colombia

By Andrea Saldarriaga Jiménez

Andrea Saldarriaga Jiménez is a Program Assistant at the Atlantic Council within the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. She was a Research Assistant at the Center for Latin American Studies within the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University during the 2014-2015 academic year, where she worked on a project called The Day after Peace Accords are Signed in Colombia: Building Peace from the Bottom Up. She is a Master in Latin American Studies candidate at the same university. Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, she graduated from Universidad de los Andes with a degree in Economics and a degree in Business. Andrea has completed academic exchange programs in Toulouse Business School in France, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and American University in Washington DC. She has studied languages at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and University of Nankai in Tianjin, China. She is a native Spanish speaker, who is also fluent in English and French, and is currently learning Portuguese and German. She has previously worked at the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the OAS, Airbus SAS, Universidad de los Andes and Fundación Nueva Vida para Todos, a non-profit organization aimed at eradicating child illiteracy and promoting high quality of living for children in the poorest neighborhoods of Bogotá.