Armando Samper Gnecco

Who is Armando Samper Gnecco?

Armando Samper Gnecco was a Colombian agronomist and engineer. He served as Minister of Agriculture of Colombia, was a founding member and first Director of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, General Director of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Dean of Jorge Tadeo Lozano University,President of the National Corporation for Forest Research and Development of Colombia, CONIF, and President of the Executive Board and General Director of the Colombian Sugarcane Research Center, Cenicaña.

He finished his secondary studies at the Gimnasio Moderno in Bogotá then moved to the United States to attend University of Maryland, College Park. From there he transferred to Cornell University where he graduated in 1943 with a B.Sc. in Agricultural Economy.