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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 ==
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