Miguel Urrutia Montoya (20 April 1939 – 9 July 2024) was a Colombian economist and author, who served as Titular Professor of Economics at the University of the Andes in Bogotá.
[1] He served as 12th General Manager of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia from 1993 to 2004, and as 5th Colombian Minister of Mines and Energy in 1977 during the administration of Alfonso López Michelsen.
He continued to pursue his studies at the received a University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained his Master of Economics in 1964, and his PhD in Economics in 1967 with his dissertation on Labour Unions in Colombia, published by Yale University Press under the title History of Colombian Labor Movement.
Among his most significant books on Colombian socio-economic history are: The Development of Colombian Labor Movement, Income Distribution in Colombia (With Albert Berry), Winners and Losers in Colombia's Economic Growth of the 1970s, and his most recent "Politica social para la equidad en Colombia: Historia y experiencias" (with Christian Robles-Baez) published in 2021 by Universidad de los Andes in Bogota.
He married Elsa Pombo Kopp in Bogotá on 3 August 1963, and together they have three children: Elena, Santiago, and Isabel.