Dr. Juan Camilo Restrepo, a Colombian citizen, is the current Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia. A lawyer of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogotá, he has a Ph.D. in Administrative Law from the University of Paris and studies in Economic Law at the London School of Economics.

Between 1973 and 1975, he served as Representative of the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation before the International Coffee Organization in London.

He served as Banking Superintendent between 1977 and 1978, was President of the National Values Commission between 1982 and 1986, and afterwards Commercial Manager of the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation.

He later served as President of "Paz del Río" Steel Company. He was Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia between 1991 and 1992, Senator of the Republic in 1994, and Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia between 1998 and 2000. On several occasions during this latter period, he was also responsible for presidential functions. He then served as Ambassador of Colombia in France.

Dr. Restrepo has also had a dynamic role in the academia, being university professor in Fiscal Law and Public Finance at the Universidad de los Andes, the Universidad Externado de Colombia, and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in addition to being professor of Colombian Economics at the Universidad Sergio Arboleda, in accordance with the information published on the official website of the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.