{"id":827,"date":"2016-03-07T01:37:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T01:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/?page_id=827"},"modified":"2016-03-09T22:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T22:54:36","slug":"pedro-miguel-echavarria","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/medellin2016\/pedro-miguel-echavarria\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Miguel Echavarr\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pedro Miguel Echavarria<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\"unnamed\"<\/a>Pedro Echavarria is the founder and general manager of Cafe de Santa Barbara, a specialty coffee company. Although a a student of The Columbus School until 10th grade, he graduated high school at Kimball Union Academy in the United States, and got his bachelor\u00b4s degree in Economics, Political Science and International Relations from Tufts University.<\/p>\n

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Right after college, Pedro worked for a grass roots political campaign that was aiming at electing Sergio Fajardo, an independent former Mayor of Medellin, for president. As the assistant to the campaign\u00b4s General Manager, he was able to reconnect with Colombia and see first hand the challenge the country faced as it slowly transitioned into a middle income country.<\/p>\n

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After the campaign, and back in Medellin after 7 years of living away from the city, Pedro and his family decided to embark on a complete transformation of their coffee business, which although large, still functioned under the traditional premises of focusing just on growing, instead of accessing markets directly. For the past 5 years Pedro has been leading the efforts to attain economic sustainability for his family\u00b4s coffee business buy improving quality and reaching premium markets directly. In the way they have also started a local retail and roasting business and for the past two years focused on developing an allied producer program. With this program they are helping small farmers access a market that permits them to add value to their coffee and reach economic sustainability. So far, they have a network of 300 allied producers across four different states of Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pedro Miguel Echavarria   Pedro Echavarria is the founder and general manager of Cafe de Santa Barbara, a specialty coffee company. Although a a student of The Columbus School until 10th grade, he graduated high school at Kimball Union Academy in the United States, and got his bachelor\u00b4s degree in \u2026<\/p>\n

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