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'''Alfonso Dávila Ortiz''' (born 4 April 1922) is a Colombian civil engineer, diplomat, businessman and forester, former ambassador to Spain and Kuwait, Chargé d'Affaires in the United States of America, Governor of the Province of [[Cundinamarca Department|Cundinamarca]], President of the Colombian Banker’s Association, twice President of the Colombian Association of Engineers and its lifelong President, Councilor of the city of Bogotá, President of Bogotá’s Jockey Club and member of Colombia’s National Council of Public Works.▼
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|4|4|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bogota, Colombia|Bogotá]], [[Colombia]]
| death_date = {{Death date|2015|11|10}}
| nationality = [[Colombia]]n
| spouse = Gladys Silva Chéreau
| children = Sonia, José Manuel, Miguel, Gladys Paulina, Consuelo, Alfonso, Carmen Lucía, Julio Daniel
| alma_mater = [[Universidad Nacional de Colombia]]
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▲'''Alfonso Dávila Ortiz''' (
== Education ==
Alfonso Dávila Ortiz was born in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]] to [[:es:José Domingo Dávila Pumarejo|José Domingo Dávila Pumarejo]] and Paulina Ortiz on 4 April 1922. On 22 April 1944 he married Gladys Silva
Following the [http://www.eeb.com.co/en/company/history sale in 1926] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818100001/http://www.eeb.com.co/en/company/history |date=2016-08-18 }} to the Municipality of Bogotá of the Compañía Nacional de Electricidad that he had founded (which merged with another private firm to create the nationalised [[:es:Empresa de Energía de Bogotá|Empresas Unidas de Energia]]),<ref>{{cite book|last=Rodriguez|first=Juan Camilo|title=Historia de la Empresa de Energía de Bogotá - Vol. 1|year=1999|publisher=EEB|location=Bogotá|isbn=958-616-437-3|url=http://www.eeb.com.co/en/company/history|access-date=2014-03-15|archive-date=2016-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818100001/http://www.eeb.com.co/en/company/history|url-status=dead}}</ref> his father took his family to Europe (Brussels, Paris and Eastbourne) for five years. Dávila Ortiz was subsequently educated in the traditional Gimnasio Moderno of Bogotá, and graduated at 16. He completed a degree in Civil Engineering at Bogotá’s [[Universidad Nacional]] 5 years later. While running a successful construction businesses he subsequently completed a postgraduate degree in Economics at Bogotá’s [[University of Los Andes (Colombia)|Universidad de los Andes]] (1963), an MSc in Marketing in Spain (1982) and a postgraduate degree in Business Management at [[INALDE]] in Bogotá (1986). On 21 April 1961 the Universidad Distrital in Bogotá awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Forestry.{{citation needed |date=March 2014}}
== Business career ==
Dávila Ortiz started his professional career in housing construction in Bogotá, subsequently moving into
== Political career ==
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He was elected Councilor of Bogotá in 1972-1974, and more importantly as Governor of the Province of [[Cundinamarca Department|Cundinamarca]] in [[:es:Anexo:Gobernadores de Cundinamarca|1972-1974]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Dávila Ortiz|first=Alfonso|title=Discurso de posesión del Señor Gobernador de Cundinamarca|year=1971|publisher=Gobernación de Cundinamarca|location=Bogotá}}</ref> appointed by President [[Misael Pastrana Borrero]] (1970-1974). As Governor he pushed through a major administrative reform including the creation of six posts of ‘Deputy Governors’ to coordinate the work of (appointed) municipal mayors, and the creation in 1974 of the pioneering Cundinamarca Forestry Corporation with the aim of addressing the rapid deterioration of the province’s natural resources.
As a diplomat he
== Recognition ==
He
He was President of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140322045619/http://www.asobancaria.com/portal/page/portal/Asobancaria/inicio/ Bankers' Association of Colombia] (1978-1981), acting Director of Bouwcentrum Colombia (1969), member of the Board of Directors of Bogotá’s [[ETB (company)|Telecommunications Company]] (ETB), Colombia’s National Railways, [[:es:Universidad de la sabana|Universidad de la sabana]], founder of the INALDE Business School<ref>{{cite web|last=INALDE|title=Fundadores del INALDE|url=http://www.inalde.edu.co/nosotros/quienes-somos/|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219040032/http://www.inalde.edu.co/nosotros/quienes-somos/|archivedate=2014-02-19}}</ref> and President and Board Member of Bogotá’s elite [https://archive.today/20140315235955/http://www.jockeyclub.com.co/history Jockey Club]
== Publications ==
He
“Por un alza del jornal mínimo agrícola. Un análisis crítico de la reforma agraria”. Supplement, ''Revista Semana'', 17 March 1959 (co-authored with Enrique Liévano Ricaurte).
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''Minifundio rural: Latifundio urbano'', Populibro No. 45, Bogotá, 1970.
''La Reforma Administrativa de Cundinamarca''
“La descentralización en el control de los recursos naturales”, ''Revista de la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, No. 30-31'', March–June 1978.
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“Contribución a la política de seguridad, producción y empleo”, ''Cuaderno Asobancaria'', 1978.
''La Reforestación en Colombia, Visión de Futuro'', Konrad Adenauer Stiftung-Fedemaderas, Bogotá, 2007. {{ISBN
''El Jockey Club que yo conocí'', Villegas Editores, Bogotá, 2010. {{ISBN
''Confidencias a mis hijos y a mis nietos'', Villegas Editores, Bogotá, 2014. {{ISBN
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