President Juan Manuel Santos

Former President Juan Manuel Santos partnered with Conservation International to advance our shared priorities in support of natural solutions to climate change, supporting indigenous peoples and peace building. President Santos builds on years of leadership forging peace and reconciliation, driving the international agenda to develop the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and establishing large-scale protected areas and Colombia’s unique national carbon tax. As president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018, he furthered ambitious environmental policies to protect the country’s biodiversity and to fight climate change. In 2016, President Santos was the sole recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for ending Colombia’s more than 50-year-long civil war.