This past February 2nd, the new Superintendent of Industry and Commerce, Cielo Elainne Rusinque Urrego, was sworn in before President Gustavo Petro.
With a master’s degree in political studies and Constitutional Law, and a PhD candidate in Law from the University Panthéon Assas (Paris II), the lawyer and professor graduated from the Universidad Externado de Colombia replaces Maria del Socorro Pimienta, who previously handled competition and consumer protection matters, data and industrial property matters at the SIC.
The new superintendent previously held positions as general director of the Administrative Department for Social Prosperity, advisor to the Military Attaché of the Colombian Embassy in France, judicial assistant I of the Regional Directorate of Prosecutors and judicial secretary of the latter and has served as a professor at several universities in the country.
