Clara Eugenia López Obregón (born 12 April 1950) is a Colombian politician who was the Minister for Employment.

A Harvard-trained economist,[1] she was the Alternative Democratic Pole's nominee for President of Colombia in the 2014 election.

[4] (cousin of painter Alejandro Obregón Roses) [5] She attended Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogotá,[5] but was later sent to live in McLean, Virginia in the United States, where she attended the Madeira School, a prestigious preparatory boarding school for girls.

[5] After graduating high school in 1968, she attended Harvard University where she became an active participant in the student movement opposed to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

[5] She was married on 13 September 1980 in Tenjo, Cundinamarca to Edmond Jacques Courtois Miller,[6] a wealthy Canadian banker whom she met while in Harvard, but they later divorced after Courtois was charged and pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in New York in 1983, having peddled confidential takeover information while a vice president at Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions department from 1974 to 1977.