The following is a list of the people who have served as head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. Until 1886, the Ministries were named Secretariats, thus the head of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs was titled Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Secretaries and ministers of foreign affairs

Republic of Colombia (1819—1831) No. Secretary of Foreign Affairs Took office Left office President1Estanislao Vergara Santamaría18201821Simón Bolívar Palacios 2Pedro Gual Escandón18211825 3José Rafael Revenga18251826 4José Manuel Restrepo Veléz18261827 5José Rafael Revenga18271828 6Estanislao Vergara y Santamaría18281828 7José Joaquín de Olmedo y Maruri18281829 8Estanislao Vergara y Santamaría18291830 9Domingo Caycedo y Santamaría18301830 10Vicente Borrero Costa18301831Joaquín de Mosquera y Arboleda 11Juan García del Río18311831 12José María del Castillo y Rada18311831 13José Félix Restrepo Vélez18311831 14José Francisco Pereira Martínez18311832Francisco de Paula Santander y Omaña

Republic of New Granada (1832—1858) No. Secretary of Foreign Affairs Took office Left office President 1José Francisco Pereira Martínez24 October 18313 April 1832Francisco de Paula Santander y Omaña 2Alejandro Vélez Barrientos3 April 18323 April 1833 3José Rafael Mosquera Hurtado3 April 18331 August 1833 4Lino de Pombo O'Donnell1 August 183314 July 1835 5Francisco Soto Montes de Oca14 July 18354 September 1835 6Lino de Pombo O'Donnell4 September 183523 March 1836 7José Nazario Florentino González Vargas23 March 18363 May 1836 8Lino de Pombo O'Donnell3 May 183615 May 1838José Ignacio de Márquez Barreto 9Pedro Alcántara Herrán Martínez15 May 183816 July 1839 10Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda16 July 183930 July 1839 11Alejandro Vélez Barrientos30 July 183928 January 1840 12Eusebio Borrero y Costa28 January 184018 May 1840 13Miguel Chiari Jiménez18 May 184027 May 1840 14Judas Tadeo Landínez27 May 184021 September 1840 15Lino de Pombo O'Donnell21 September 18409 October 1840 16Miguel Chiari Jiménez9 October 184013 May 1841 17Mariano Ospina Rodríguez13 May 18412 October 1843Pedro Alcántara Herrán Martínez 18Tomás Joaquín de Acosta y Pérez de Guzmán2 October 18431 April 1845 19Juan María Gómez Pastor1 April 18459 October 1849Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda 20Eusebio Borrero y Costa9 October 184928 May 1846 21Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen28 May 18467 July 1846 22Juan Antonio Pardo Pardo7 July 184613 October 1846 23Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen13 October 184620 July 1847 24Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra20 July 18477 February 1848 25Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen7 February 184819 June 1848 26José María Galaviz19 June 18485 December 1848 27Justo Arosemena Quesada5 December 184812 January 1849 28Cerbeleón Pinzón12 January 18491 April 1849 29Manuel Murillo Toro1 April 184916 May 1849José Hilario López Valdéz 30José Acevedo Tejada16 May 18497 June 1849 31Victoriano de Diego Paredes y Paramato7 June 18491 November 1851 32José María Plata Soto1 November 18511 March 1853 33Lorenzo María Lleras González1 March 185326 November 1853José María Obando del Campo 34José Caicedo Rojas26 November 18531 January 1854 35Cerbeleón Pinzón1 January 18541 April 1855 36Lino de Pombo O'Donnell1 April 18551 April 1857 37Juan Antonio Pardo Pardo1 April 18571 April 1861Mariano Ospina Rodríguez

Granadine Confederation (1858—1863) No. Secretary of Foreign Affairs Took office Left office President 1Juan Antonio Pardo Pardo1 April 18571 April 1861Mariano Ospina Rodríguez 2Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen1 April 186118 July 1861Bartolomé Calvo Díaz 3José María Rojas Garrido18 July 186123 November 1861Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda 4Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra23 November 18611 December 1862 5José María Rojas Garrido1 December 186210 February 1863 6José Hilario López Valdéz10 February 186314 May 1863

United States of Colombia (1863—1886) Term start Term end Minister of Foreign Affairs1882 1882 Jose Maria Quijnao Wallis

Republic of Colombia (1886—2026) Term start Term end Minister of Foreign Affairs1887 1888 Carlos Holguín Mallarino1891 1891 Antonio Roldán1891 1895 Marco Fidel Suárez1895 1896 José Maria Uricoechea1897 1898 Jorge Holguín1897 1898 Antonio Gómez Restrepo1898 1899 Felipe Fermín Paul1899 1900 Carlos Cuervo Márquez1900 1901 Carlos Martínez Silva1901 1902 Antonio José Uribe1902 1903 Felipe F. Paúl1903 1904 Luis Carlos Rico1904 1904 Francisco de Paula Mateus1904 1904 Enrique Cortés1904 1906 Clímaco Calderón1906 1908 Gral. Alfredo Vázquez Cobo1908 1908 Gral. Marceliano Vargas1908 1909 Francisco José Urrutia1909 1909 Guillermo Camacho1909 1909 Carlos Cuervo Márquez1909 1909 Marco Fidel Suárez1909 1910 Carlos Calderón1910 1911 Enrique Olaya Herrera1911 1912 José María González Valencia1912 1914 Francisco José Urrutia1914 1917 Miguel Abadía Méndez1917 1918 Pedro Antonio Molina1918 1918 Jorge Holguín1918 1919 Pedro Antonio Molina1919 1920 Hernando Holguín y Caro1920 1920 Francisco Montaña1920 1921 Laureano García Ortiz1921 1921 José Vicente Concha1921 1921 Carlos Adolfo Urueta1921 1922 Enrique Olaya Herrera1922 1922 Antonio José Uribe1922 1922 Lucas Caballero Barrera1922 1922 Carlos Adolfo Urueta1922 1925 Jorge Vélez1925 1926 Eduardo Restrepo Sáenz1926 1927 Marco Fidel Suárez1927 1930 Carlos Uribe1930 1930 Francisco Samper Madrid1930 1930 Eduardo Santos Montejo1930 1931 Raimundo Rivas1931 1935 Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez1935 1935 Enrique Olaya Herrera1935 1935 Francisco Samper Madrid1935 1936 Ernesto González Piedrahita1936 1937 Jorge Soto del Corral1937 1938 Gabriel Turbay1938 1938 Antonio Rocha1938 1940 Francisco Samper Madrid1940 1942 Luis López de Mesa1942 1943 Gabriel Turbay1943 1943 Francisco José Chaux1943 1943 Gabriel Turbay1943 1944 Carlos Lozano y Lozano1944 1945 Darío Echandía Olaya1945 1945 Alberto Lleras Camargo1945 1946 Fernando Londoño y Londoño1946 1946 Francisco Umaña Bernal1946 1947 Carlos Lozano y Lozano1947 1947 Luis López de Mesa1947 1948 Domingo Esguerra Plata1948 1948 Laureano Gómez Castro1948 1949 Eduardo Zuleta Ángel1949 1949 Guillermo León Valencia Muñoz1949 1949 Eduardo Zuleta Ángel1949 1950 Eliseo Arango1950 1950 Evaristo Sourdis Juliao1950 1952 Gonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo1952 1953 Juan Uribe Holguín1953 1953 Guillermo León Valencia Muñoz1953 1956 Evaristo Sourdis Juliao1956 1957 José Manuel Rivas Sacconi1957 1958 Carlos Sanz de Santamaría1958 1961 Julio César Turbay Ayala1961 1962 José Joaquín Caicedo Castilla1962 1963 José Antonio Montalvo1963 1963 Fernando Londoño y Londoño1963 1965 Fernando Gómez Martínez1965 1966 Castor Jaramillo Arrubla1966 1968 Germán Zea Hernández1968 1970 Alfonso López Michelsen1970 1974 Alfredo Vázquez Carrizosa1974 1978 Indalecio Liévano Aguirre1978 1981 Diego Uribe Vargas1981 1982 Carlos Lemos Simmonds1982 1984 Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo1984 1986 Augusto Ramírez Ocampo1986 1990 Cnel. Julio Londoño Paredes1990 1991 Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa1991 1994 Noemí Sanín Posada1994 1996 Rodrigo Pardo García-Peña1996 1998 María Emma Mejía Vélez1998 1998 Camilo Reyes Rodríguez1998 2002 Guillermo Fernández de Soto2002 2006 Carolina Barco Isakson2006 2007 María Consuelo Araújo Castro2007 2008 Fernando Araújo Perdomo2008 2010 Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde2010 2018 María Ángela Holguín2018 2019 Carlos Holmes Trujillo2019 2021 Claudia Blum2021 2022 Marta Lucía Ramírez2022 2024 Álvaro Leyva2024 2025 Luis Gilberto Murillo2025 2025 Laura Sarabia2025 2026 Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio

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