Karen Abudinen | |
Office: | Minister of Information Technologies and Communications |
President: | Iván Duque |
Term Start: | May 4, 2020 |
Term End: | September 9, 2021 |
Predecessor: | Sylvia Constaín |
Successor: | Carmen Ligia Valderrama |
Office2: | High Councilor for Political and Legislative Affairs |
President2: | Iván Duque |
Term Start2: | November 1, 2019 |
Term End2: | May 4, 2020 |
Predecessor2: | Jaime Amín |
Successor2: | Federico Hoyos |
Office3: | High Councilor for the Regions |
President3: | Iván Duque |
Term Start3: | August 7, 2018 |
Term End3: | May 4, 2020 |
Predecessor3: | Juan Felipe Quintero |
Successor3: | Federico Hoyos |
Office4: | General Director of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare |
President4: | Juan Manuel Santos |
Term Start4: | August 14, 2017 |
Term End4: | July 15, 2018 |
Predecessor4: | Cristina Plazas |
Successor4: | Juliana Pungiluppi |
Office5: | Secretary of District Education of Barranquilla |
1Blankname5: | Mayor |
1Namedata5: | Alejandro Char |
Term Start5: | January 2, 2016 |
Term End5: | August 8, 2017 |
Predecessor5: | José Carlos Herrera |
Successor5: | Bibiana Rincón |
Office6: | Secretary of Social Management of Barranquilla |
1Blankname6: | Mayor |
1Namedata6: | Elsa Noguera |
Term Start6: | January 3, 2012 |
Term End6: | September 5, 2014 |
Predecessor6: | Vicente Correa |
Successor6: | Carlos José De Castro |
Birth Name: | Karen Cecilia Abudinen Abuchaibe |
Birth Date: | 29 September 1976 |
Birth Place: | Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia |
Party: | Radical Change (since 2014) |
Education: | Universidad del Norte (BL) Georgetown University |
Karen Cecilia Abudinen Abuchaibe (born September 24, 1976) is a Colombian lawyer and politician. Abudinen from 2012 to 2014, served as Secretary of Social Management during the municipal administration of Elsa Noguera, then from 2016 to 2017 would serve as Secretary of District Education of Barranquilla. Later from 2017 to 2018 she would serve as Director General of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, [1] she would subsequently serve as High Councilor for the Regions from 2018 to 2020 and simultaneously asHigh Councilor for Political and Legislative Affairs from 2019 to 2020, she would later be appointed Minister of Information and Communication Technologies from 2020 to 2021, a position she would later resign from after being involved in a corruption scandal involving her in the embezzlement of 70 million pesos as well as irregular hiring.[2] [3]