Content deleted Content added
m Removed the religion-parameter from the infobox since it is no longer in use. Also did minor cleanup. |
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5 |
||
| (5 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{
{{Infobox Politician
| birth_name = Alfonso Dávila Ortiz
Line 24:
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 Chéreau, daughter of Colombian General Miguel Silva Plazas and Bertha Chéreau. They had eight children, six of whom survive. He died peacefully surrounded by his family on 10 November 2015 in Bogotá.
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 ==
Line 39:
He was twice President of the [[:es:Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros|Society of Colombian Engineers]] (1960 and 1961).<ref>{{cite web|last=SCI|title=Presidentes 1887-2014, Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros|url=http://www.sci.org.co/Quienes-somos/Miembros-destacados/Presidentes.aspx|publisher=SCI|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327221443/http://www.sci.org.co/Quienes-somos/Miembros-destacados/Presidentes.aspx|archivedate=2014-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gaitán Cortés|first=Jorge|title=Democracia y Valorización. Extractos de un Debate en el Concejo de Bogotá|year=1960|publisher=Private publisher|location=Bogotá|author2=Enrique Peñalosa Camargo}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gilbert|first=Alan|title=Metropolitan Latin America: The Challenge and the Response|year=1978|publisher=Sage|location=London|pages=87–126|editor=Wayne A. Cornelius|chapter=Bogotá: Politics, Planning, and the Crisis of Lost Opportunities}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Dávila|first=Julio D|title=Planificación y Política en Bogotá: La Vida de Jorge Gaitán Cortés|year=2000|publisher=Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá|location=Bogotá|isbn=9588109027}}</ref> He was founder and President of the [http://camacol.co Construction Chamber of Colombia] (1967-1972), where he lobbied the Colombian government to include construction as an economic sector in the national accounts.<ref>{{cite book|last=Vargas Caicedo|first=Hernando|title=Cincuenta años en la construcción de Colombia. Camacol 1957-2007|year=2007|publisher=Camacol|location=Bogotá|isbn=9589841309}}</ref>
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.
== Publications ==
Line 82:
[[Category:Colombian male writers]]
[[Category:National University of Colombia alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century Colombian businesspeople]]
[[Category:People from Bogotá]]
[[Category:1922 births]]
| |||