:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/V4BKH3LZK5HQZI4VT7FRSURE5I.jpg "The National Committee of Coffee Growers has postponed the date for defining the shortlist of candidates for the position of General Manager of the Federation 1")
He National Committee of Coffee Growers (CNC) postponed to the third week of March the date for defining the final shortlist of candidates for the post of Director General of the National Federation of Coffee Growers (FNC).
He informed that once the shortlist is defined, the next steps in the schedule of electoral process to ensure that all steps are completed and that coffee growers can get to know the applicants and their proposals first hand.
Until before this decision, and according to the established schedule, between March 13 and 17 The CNC would meet and analyze the CVs selected by the Steering Committee and agree and approve the names that will make up the shortlist to be presented to the National Congress of Coffee Growers.
However, the postponement comes from the reaction of the national government to the knowledge of the list of candidates for the post of director general. You have to remember that he rejected it because there was only one woman among the selected.
“The national government will request the Steering Committee of the National Federation of Coffee Growers to review the list of candidates for the leadership of the entity in order to include a significant number of female candidates. Moreover, he rejects the fact that there is only one woman on the current list,” the finance ministry said in a brief statement on March 10.
Likewise, he warned that the national government will carry out a detailed analysis in order to confirm that all the candidates meet the requirements demanded by the National Committee of Coffee Growers.
It should be noted that the Steering Committee of the National Federation of Coffee Growers (FNC) announced that during the meeting of March 9, it made a detailed and rigorous analysis of CVs received from candidates to the post of Director General to choose the candidates he considered most appropriate.
He said 45 resumes were received and seven candidates were selected, the only woman being the former Comptroller General of Colombia. Sandra Morelli Rico.
The other six are Carlos Felipe Robayo Duque (FNC sales manager), Cesar Augusto Echeverry Castaño (consultant on sustainability and climate change in high quality agriculture, coffee and coffee growing for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and the Inter-American Development Bank), German Alberto Bahamon Jaramillo (Apple manager in Colombia), Luis Fernando Mejia Alzate (director of Fedesarrollo), Mauricio Velásquez García (general manager of Sucroal SA) and Santiago Pardo Salguero (Vice President of Analdex and former Colombian Ambassador to Japan).
Prior to the national government’s announcement, and with the aforementioned postponement of the shortlist selection, the FNC had announced the following dates in the timeline for the CEO election:
- Between March 13 and 17: The National Coffee Growers Committee will meet and analyze the CVs selected by the Steering Committee and agree and approve the names that will make up the shortlist to present to the National Coffee Growers Congress.
- Between March 21 and 31: shortlisted candidates will present their proposals and/or programs to each of the 15 departmental commissions
- April 18: The Extraordinary Coffee Congress will elect and inaugurate the General Manager of the FNC from the shortlist presented by the National Committee of Coffee Producers.
According to the profile of candidates and the guiding criteria disclosed in the call, whoever reaches the General management of the FNC will take up the challenge of maintaining union unity, proximity to all producers and continuing to improve institutional indicators in economic, financial, social, environmental and governance matters, and must above all be guided by the mission of the FNC which is none other than to ensure the well-being of coffee growers, their r