# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-emma-mejia-velez
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:46:49.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-emma-mejia-velez"
name: "María Emma Mejía Vélez"
slug: "maria-emma-mejia-velez"
description: "María Emma Mejía Vélez is a Colombian politician, diplomat, and journalist. She was the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations in New York. She served as Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Education, Ambassador of Colombia to Spain, and member of the Foreign Affairs Advisory Commission of Colombia. Mejía Vélez was also a peace negotiator with FARC and ELN armed groups. For over a decade, she held the post of Executive Director to the Barefoot Foundation, a non-profit founded by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. Mejía Vélez also ran for vice-president and for mayor of Bogotá."
tagline: "Colombian politician and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MariaEmmaMejiaV.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1953-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.5
  momentum:             1.986754966887417
  historical:           6.383985333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ColombiaONU"
    handle:    "ColombiaONU"
sources:
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    title: "María Emma Mejía"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Emma_Mej%C3%ADa_V%C3%A9lez"
    title: "María Emma Mejía Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماريا إيما ميخيا فيليز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماريا ايما مايا بليز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Emma_Mej%C3%ADa"
    title: "María Emma Mejía"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Emma_Mej%C3%ADa_V%C3%A9lez"
    title: "María Emma Mejía Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "मारिया एम्मा मेजिया वेलेज"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3064569"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump