Alfredo Fuentes Hernández is a Colombian diplomat, lawyer and economist. He was a partner at Colombian law firm Palacios Lleras. Since October 2015 he is a partner and CEO at the Colombian Law Firm "Fuentes Hernández Asesores SAS". As the Director General for Legal Affairs, he became the interim

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of the

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in August 2006, after Allan Wagner Tizón's resignation. He was succeeded by

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(

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), in January 2007. Fuentes was previously the Executive Director of the Cerrejón Foundation for the Institutional Strengthening, a program supported by

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producer and exporter Cerrejon; and dean of the Faculty of Law at the

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. He is an alumnus of the

, and earned a

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scholarship to attend

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and

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. He was awarded with the National Order of Merit decreed by the President of Ecuador in 2006, and the Order of Merit for Distinguished Services by Supreme Resolution of the President of Peru and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2008. He was also preselected by the Council of State in 2012 among the final three candidates for Magistrate of the

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