Sergio Jaramillo Caro (born October 17, 1966) is a Colombian diplomat, philosopher and politician. From 2006 to 2009, he served as Vice Minister of Defense for Politics and International Affairs, during the administration of Álvaro Uribe, then from 2012 to 2017 he served as National Security Advisor from 2010 to 2012, and later as High Commissioner for Peace during the administration of Juan Manuel Santos From 2017 to 2018, Jaramillo was Ambassador of Colombia to the European Union and Belgium.

Studies

He studied philosophy at the

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and philology at the

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. He received a master's degree in philosophy from the

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and was a candidate for a doctorate in Greek at

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in Germany. He speaks fluent

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and

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. He also speaks

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and

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Civil service

From 2000 to 2001, he worked in Cancillería, where minister Guillermo Fernández Soto named him his advisor for the Diplomacy for Peace program. From 2001 to 2002, he was a political counselor for the Colombian embassy in

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, where he worked with ambassadors Juan Camilo Restrepo and

Marta Lucía Ramírez Marta Lucía Ramírez Blanco (born 4 July 1954) is a Colombian lawyer and politician who served as 12th Vice President of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. She also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. In 2018, Ramírez became the f ...

. From 2002 to 2004, he was the advisor of political issues and strategies for the ministry of national defense for

, where he was in charge of development, the coordination, and writing of The Political Defense and Democratic Security from 2002 to 2003 Between 2004 and 2006, Jaramillo stopped work as a

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and became an executive director of the Ideas for Peace Foundation (''Fundación Ideas para la Paz'' (FIP)). As such, he was in charge of leading a work team that published the series ''Siguiendo el Conflicto'' (Following Conflict) which reached great influence within Colombian armed conflict analysis. He published 45 issues of that series. Before leaving the leadership of FIP, he published an article in the newspaper, '' El Tiempo'', that analysed the impact of the pressure of losses and casualties within the FMM and its dangerous consequences. Between 2006 and 2009, Jaramillo worked with

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as vice minister for human rights and international issues at the defense ministry. His work focused on reporting false positives within the army, prompting the prosecutor's office to undertake the investigations of homicides and to exclude military justice. His role was key in the later expulsion of a group of 27 high officers in the army ranks. He came up with

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policies that regulated force. He was a defender of the consolidation policy with a civilian approach. He was also a major proponent of demobilisation policies. Between 2009 and 2010, he was the investigator for the Andes University faculty

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. There he led the creation of the group Amigos de La Macarena as a mechanism to draw bridges between

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and the policy of territorial consolidation. Between 2010 and 2012, Jaramillo took charge as the senior presidential national security adviser of the Santos government. In this position, he propelled the reactivation of the National Security Council where there was a special emphasis against the criminal bands ('' bacrim'') and in the strengthening of the policy of territorial consolidation. During this period, he was also the High Commissioner for Peace. Between 2010 and the public announcement in September 2012, he was the head of the government team in charge of leading the approaches and exploratory phase of conversations with

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. He was responsible for the secret negotiations that brought the approval of "the general agreement for the ending of conflict" between the Colombian government and the guerrilla warfare of the

in August 2012. He was also part of the government delegation in the conversations in

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until August 2016. In June 2023, he was injured when two Russian ballistic missiles struck a dining café in Kramatorsk, Ukraine where he was meeting Ukrainian writer

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, who later died as a result of her injuries.

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