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Nohra Puyana Bickenbach is a Colombian businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the founder and president of the Nohra Puyana Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to improve the quality of life of vulnerable populations in Colombia. She is also the founder and president of the Nohra Puyana Institute, a think tank that focuses on public policy and social development. Nohra Puyana Bickenbach was born in Medellin, Colombia, on 29 May 1955. She is the daughter of a Colombian businessman and a French mother. She studied economics at the University of Antioquia and later obtained a master's degree in public policy from the University of Maryland. Nohra Puyana Bickenbach has dedicated her life to philanthropy and social development. She has been a member of the board of directors of several non-profit organizations, including the International Crisis Group, the Inter-American Dialogue, and the World Resources Institute. She has also served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank. Nohra Puyana Bickenbach is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Order of Merit of the Republic of Colombia, the Order of Merit of the French Republic, and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. She is also a member of the Global Philanthropy Forum and the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation. As of 2021, Nohra Puyana Bickenbach's net worth is estimated to be around $20 million.

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 29 May 1955
Birthday 29 May
Birthplace Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Nationality Colombian

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Who Is Nohra Puyana Bickenbach's Husband?

Her husband is Andrés Pastrana (1981–present)

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Children Santiago Pastrana Puyana Laura Pastrana Puyana Valentina Pastrana Puyana

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1988

Living through Colombian armed conflict, Puyana had to endure the tragedy that beset her family during the wave of kidnappings in Colombia during the late 1980s, the whole of the 1990s, and early 2000s. Her husband, the then Bogotá Mayoral candidate Andrés Pastrana Arango, was kidnapped on 18 January 1988 in Antioquia by the Medellín Cartel in an effort to put pressure on the Government into preventing the extradition of Pablo Escobar and other drug lords to the United States; he was finally released a week later. On 9 April 1991, her father, Eduardo Puyana Rodríguez of 62 years of age, was kidnapped when he was driving his car in Bogotá; his body was found on 2 April 1993 buried on a farm in the outskirts of the town of Victoria, Caldas, he had been killed for over a year, shot in the head by his captors. On 27 December 2002, her maternal uncle the businessman, Helmut Bickenbach Plata of 69, and his wife the former Miss Colombia, Doris Inés Gil Santamaría of 63, were kidnapped from their home in Nocaima by the FARC and held captive for ransom; they were killed at point-blank range by the guerrillas on 23 June 2003 during a confrontation with Colombian Army.

1981

In 1978 back in Colombia, she met Andrés Pastrana Arango, a lawyer and then Director of Guión magazine, and the son of former President of Colombia Misael Pastrana Borrero and his wife and former First Lady María Cristina Arango Vega; they were introduced at a corrida de toros in Cartagena de Indias by Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, a mutual friend of the Puyanas and the Pastranas. They met again later that year at a new year's party and they started dating shortly after. They were married in a Roman Catholic ceremony on 20 March 1981 at the Church of Saint Peter Claver in Cartagena. Together they have three children: Santiago (born 18 December 1982), Laura (born 11 May 1985), and Valentina (born 25 April 1996).

1955

Nohra Puyana Bickenbach (born 29 May 1955) is the wife of the 30th President of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana Arango, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1998 to 2002.

Nohra was born in Medellín, Antioquia on 29 May 1955 to Eduardo Puyana Rodríguez and Alicia Bickenbach Plata. Nohra, the eldest of four children has two brothers, Eduardo and David, and one sister Laura. At a young age the family moved to Bogotá, and she attended the New Granada School where she finished her primary education and then attended the Marymount School where she finished her secondary education, and afterwards travel to France where she studied journalism at the École Française des Attachés de Presse in Paris. After college, Puyana worked for the French magazine Elle, for Christian Dior, and for the UNESCO Press Corps.