Augusto Ocampo
Augusto Ocampo | |
|---|---|
 Ocampo in 2025 | |
| Legal Secretary to the Presidency | |
| Assumed office April 28, 2025 | |
| President | Gustavo Petro |
| Preceded by | Paula Robledo Silva |
| Minister of Justice and Law | |
| Acting June 13, 2025 – October 28, 2025 | |
| President | Gustavo Petro |
| Preceded by | Ángela María Buitrago |
| Succeeded by | Luis Eduardo Montealegre |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Augusto Alfonso Ocampo Camacho 1974 (age 51–52) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Party | Historic Pact (2025-present) |
Other political affiliations |
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| Education | Catholic University of Colombia (LLB) |
| Profession | |
Augusto Alfonso Ocampo Camacho (born c. 1974) is a Colombian lawyer and attorney who has served as Legal Secretary to the Presidency since 2025.[1]
Ocampo graduated with a law degree from the Catholic University of Colombia. He subsequently joined Gustavo Petro's 2011 mayoral campaign in Bogotá. Later, he was appointed District Director of Disciplinary Affairs during Petro's term as mayor of Bogotá.
In 2016, he was appointed Director of the Transparency Office of Ibagué under Mayor Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo. In 2022, he joined Gustavo Petro's 2022 presidential campaign.
In April 2025, Petro appointed him Legal Secretary of the Presidency. From June to October 2025, he served as Acting Minister of Justice following the resignation of Ángela María Buitrago.[2]
Career
Ocampo studied law at the Catholic University of Colombia, where he later obtained a specialization in criminal investigation. He subsequently served as a circuit criminal judge and later as an auxiliary magistrate and alternate judge of the Superior Court of Bogotá.[3]
He then served as the district director of Disciplinary Affairs for Bogotá under the mayoral administration of Gustavo Petro. In 2016, he moved to Ibagué after the victory of Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, who appointed him director of the Transparency Office while he was known as the anti-corruption czar.[4][5]
Later, he served as a delegate prosecutor for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
References
- ↑ "Presidente Petro posesionó a los nuevos secretarios Jurídico y de Comunicaciones" [President Petro swore in the new Legal and Communications Secretaries]. presidencia.gov.co (in Spanish). 28 April 2025. Archived from the original on 6 March 2026. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ↑ Ávila, Katheryne (16 May 2025). "Gobierno aceptó renuncia de minjusticia: Augusto Ocampo quedará encargado" [Government accepted the resignation of the Minister of Justice: Augusto Ocampo will be in charge]. Bluradio (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 March 2026. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ↑ Rivera Guevara, Nicolás (3 June 2025). "Defendió a la Primera Línea y fue acusado por estafa: este sería el nuevo ministro de Justicia" [He defended the front line protesters and was accused of fraud: this would be the new Minister of Justice]. El Colombiano (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 March 2026. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ↑ "Gobierno aceptó la renuncia de Ángela María Buitrago; Augusto Alfonso Ocampo Camacho es MinJusticia (e)" [The government accepted the resignation of Ángela María Buitrago; Augusto Alfonso Ocampo Camacho is the acting Minister of Justice]. RTVC Noticias (in Spanish). 16 May 2025. Archived from the original on 6 March 2026. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ↑ "88 millones en contratos recibieron el zar anticorrupción, su hija y su novia en la Alcaldía de Ibagué" [The anti-corruption czar, his daughter, and his girlfriend received 88 million in contracts at the Ibagué Mayor's Office]. El Olfato (in Spanish). 21 February 2018. Archived from the original on 6 March 2026. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
External links
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