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Carlos Fernando Galán

Politician

Carlos Fernando Galán is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	CARLOS FERNANDO GALAN PACHON · CARLOS FERNANDO GALÁN PACHÓN · Carlos Fernando Galán · Карлос Фернандо Галан · Карлос Фернандо Ґалан · 3 more...				[sources]
Other name	Carlos Fernando Galan · Carlos Fernando Galán · Карлос Фернандо Ґала́н				[sources]
Birth date	1977-06-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Bogotá				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Colombia				[sources]
Country	Colombia				[sources]
Citizenship	Colombia				[sources]
Classification	Local government (unknown status) · National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Carlos · Fernando				[sources]
ID Number	`79929411`				[sources]
Last name	Galán				[sources]
Website	www.carlosgalan.com · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.funcionpublica.gov.co				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q5750311				[sources]
Position	Mayor of Bogota (2024-) · Senado (member, 2014-2018) · member of the Senate of Colombia (2014-2018)				[sources]
Education	Columbia University · Universidad Externado de Colombia				[sources]
Last change	2025-09-05	Last processed	2025-10-02	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Find their declarations of assets and income, conflicts of interest and income and complementary taxes (Law 2013 of 2019) at https://www.funcionpublica.gov.co/fdci/consultaCiudadana/index?find=FindNext&tipoPersonaId=25&numeroDocumento=79929411

— Colombian PEP Declarations, 2025-09-05

Colombian politician and journalist

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Claudio Galán Pachón Politician	sibling	-	-
Gloria Pachón Politician	mother	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
ALCALDE MAYOR - SECRETARIA GENERAL DE LA ALCALDIA MAYOR DE BOGOTA	-	-
Member of the Senado	2014-07-20

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Juan Manuel Galán Politician	sibling	-	-

Data sources

Every Politician58,326

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,079

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,919

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

Colombian PEP Declarations20,159

Declarations of Politically Exposed Person status of public servants and politicians in Colombia

Colombia · DAFP

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions546,670

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,411

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-f1ec2a52-b98e-4f85-9e3c-383e2e70f0a6 · co-cedula-79929411

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