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Gustavo Petro

Politician · Sanctioned entity

Gustavo Petro is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego · Gustavo Petro · Gustavo Petro Urrego · PETRO URREGO, Gustavo Francisco · Γκουστάβο Πέτρο · 15 more...				[sources]
Alias	Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego · Gustavo Petro Urrego · Густаво Петро Уррего · Густаво Франсиско Петро Уррего · ဂူစတာဗို ပက်ထရို ဥရီဂို · 2 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Aureliano · Comandante Andrés · Petro · Петро · ပက်ထရို · 4 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1960-04-19				[sources]
Place of birth	Ciénaga de Oro · Zipaquira, Colombia				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Colombia				[sources]
Country	Colombia				[sources]
Citizenship	Colombia · Italy				[sources]
Classification	Local government (current) · National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Francisco · Gustavo				[sources]
ID Number	`208079`				[sources]
Last name	Petro				[sources]
Matronymic	Urrego				[sources]
Middle name	Francisco				[sources]
Patronymic	Petro				[sources]
Political association	Alianza Democrática · Alternative Democratic Pole · Alternative Way · Humane Colombia · Regional Integration Movement				[sources]
Title	Excelentisimo Señor				[sources]
Website	gustavopetro.co · www.funcionpublica.gov.co				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q704022				[sources]
Position	Mayor of Bogota (2012-2014) · Mayor of Bogota (2014-2015) · President · President of Colombia (2022-) · ambassador of Colombia to Belgium (1994-1996) · 6 more...				[sources]
Education	High School of Public Administration of Colombia. (ESAP) (-1990) · Pontifical Xavierian University (-1994) · UCLouvain (-1995) · Universidad Externado de Colombia (-1982) · University of Salamanca (-1995)				[sources]
Religion	Catholicism				[sources]
Address	Bogota				[sources]
Source link	sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov · www.cia.gov · www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-02-03	Last processed	2026-02-04	First seen	2023-07-18

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=208079

— Colombian PEP Declarations, 2025-12-28

34th President of Colombia since 2022

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-11-15

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
United States	Office of Foreign Assets Control		-	-

Address
Full address	Country
Bogota	Colombia

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Sofía Petro Close Associate	child	-	-
Nicolás Petro Politician	child · father	-

Identifications
Document number	Country	Type	Start date	End date
`208079`	Colombia	Cedula No.	-	-

Linked from
Subject	Role	Start date	End date

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date

Data sources

UN Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs1,072

The UN's list of senior government officials in all of its member states.

DGACM

Colombian PEP Declarations26,536

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

Colombia · DAFP

US OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List36,679

The primary United States' sanctions list, specially designated nationals (SDN) part.

United States · OFAC

US CIA World Factbook Heads of State and Government873

An index of most national-level heads of state and heads of government in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

US Trade Consolidated Screening List (CSL)23,556

The Consolidated Screening List (CSL) is a list of parties for which the United States Government maintains restrictions on certain exports, re-exports, or transfers of items.

United States · ITA

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,800

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders10,983

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions472,691

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,783

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

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: unprot-9506905808d7331d2c22e961d9f1eb48abd3125f · co-cedula-208079 · unprot-fd2e40912c6c4002ceba4e9325235c126e2aaea6 · ofac-56062 · us-cia-colombia-gustavo-francisco-petro-urrego-president · unprot-1696a94a62341df43678ce088e95cbae14436bc1 · unprot-e641c205b2647b5c9f3a702408ed185673c42dae · us-cia-colombia-gustavo-petro-urrego-president · NK-fNdP9x5XCWXSq73tECyQ9y

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PRESIDENTE DE LA REPÚBLICA	-	-
member of the Senate of Colombia	2018-07-20	2022-07-20
Presidente de la República de Colombia	2022-08-07	-
Senator	-	-
President	2022-08-07	-
Mayor of Bogota	-	-
President	-	-
President of Colombia	-	-
Member of the Congress of Colombia	-	-