Juan Manuel Santos is the current and 32nd President of Colombia. He was born to the rich and influential Santos family who had been the majority shareholders of the ‘El Tiempo’ newspaper from 1913 to 2007. He began his career in journalism at ‘El Tiempo’, but he always had an interest in politics. He embarked on a political career in the 1970's when he represented ‘National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia’ in London. He has also been extensively educated and received degrees from the University of Kansas, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Harvard University. He also earned a couple fellowships. He returned to Colombia in 1981 and began working at the family newspaper. Ten years later, he was appointed to his first major political post, when he became Colombia's Minister of Foreign Trade. Somewhere around this time, he became interested in the ‘Third Way’, a political centrism that combines conservative free-market capitalism with liberal social policies. He served a number of different Presidents in different capacities until he was elected President himself in 2010. During much of his career, he has sought to stamp out terrorism, especially FARC, and bring prosperity to Columbia by promoting economic growth.