Francisco José Lloreda Mera (born 13 November 1965)[1] is a Colombian lawyer, politician, writer, editor and newspaper director.
He is serving as High Presidential Advisor for Coexistence and Citizen Security in the Administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón.
He has been a writer, editor, and director of the newspaper El País,[2][3] founded in 1949 by his paternal grandfather Álvaro Lloreda Caicedo and great-uncles.
In August 1981 at the age of 15, Lloreda was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma on his leg;[4] he was taken to New York City where he underwent chemotherapy and received a hip replacement at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
He later completed a Master's in Latin America Public Policy (2003) and a Doctorate of Philosophy (2010) from St Antony's College, Oxford.
In 2005 and 2006 he was Director of the Public Policy Observatory and simultaneously held the position of Professor at the Universidad Icesi in Cali, Colombia.
Being dually accredited, Lloreda had earlier presented his credentials as Permanent Representative of Colombia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at The Hague on Friday 6 June to Director General of the OPCW Rogelio Pfirter.
On 4 November 2010, while Lloreda was still serving as ambassador to the Netherlands, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón appointed him as High Presidential Advisor for Coexistence and Citizen Security, a new cabinet-level position aimed at reducing crime in cities and its causes.