Juan Pablo Gallo


Juan Pablo Gallo Maya is a Colombian economist and politician and the current mayor of Pereira since January 2016.

Education, personal life and professional career

Juan Pablo Gallo was born in Pereira in 1979 to Silvio Gallo Santa and Luz Helena Maya. He is married to Lina Marcela Muñetón since.
He studied Economy and at the Free University of Colombia and marketing at the Eafit. During his secondary studies, Gallo was interested in politics, and was elected as the spokesperson at school, and as youth municipal mayor while Juan Manuel Arango was Mayor.

Politics career

Juan Began his life as the youth municipal councillor elected with 2,807, and re-elected with 5,841. where he promote the environment and animal wellness. In 2015 Gallo ran for mayor of Pereira winning with 126,075, supported by citizens and partisan coalition.

Acknowledgments

On 28 March 2019, he was invited as a speaker to the Tax and Business Competitiveness forum organized in Ibagué, where authorities met in academic and economic matters. There he presented the public finance plan of his Government plan, in the framework of the recent unemployment figures. In addition to the appearance of the city in the international Doing Business Ranking during his tenure.
As Mayor to figure in the top positions of the National Ranking of Mayors, with Alejandro Char, Federico Gutiérrez and Rodolfo Hernández Suárez and Marcos Daniel Pineda.