John Sudarsky

John Sudarsky Rosebaum  (born February 19, 1947) is an industrial engineer, psychologist, teacher and Colombian businessman. Attached to the Green Party, Sudarsky was elected as a senator and served in that position between 2010 and 2014. Along with the support in the Chamber of Representatives of his colleague and fellow political community, Angela Maria Robledo, he also formed the dissidence of his party, created in opposition to the alliance of said community with former President Álvaro Uribe.

He is currently president of the Corporation for Social Control (Contrial), which he founded in 2013.

Early life
Sudarsky is the son of Jewish immigrants, where he was born in Armenia, Quindio. Later, they moved to Bogota, where Sudarsky currently lives.

2010 election
For the period 2010–2014, under the visionary wing of the Green Party, he was elected Senator of the Republic. He is the co-author of the Statutory Law of Participation (Law 1757 of 2015). In the first commission, he presented the paper and managed to get the law that seeks to ban violence against women approved in the plenary session of the Senate. In the sixth commission, he debates the SENA (National Learning Service). He is also the manager of the law against drunk driving (Law 1696 of 2013). As Senator, he formulated the Draft Legislative Act to Reform the Electoral System, based on the proposal for a mixed electoral system (SEM).

2014 presidential election
In March 2014, he participated in the consultation to choose a presidential candidate for the Alianza Verde Party, in which he obtained 350,000 votes.

John Sudarsky has participated in the New Liberalism Movement with Luis Carlos Galán. He was Participatory Planning Counselor from 2001–2003, during his second term as Mayor of Bogotá.

Education
Senator John Sudarsky is a Doctor of Education from Harvard University.