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Marta Catalina Velasco Campuzano (June 4 of 1968, Bogotá, Colombia) is an economist and specialist in law urban planning Colombian. Since August 11, 2022, he has held the position of minister of Housing, City and Territory of his country, under the government of Gustavo Petro. She has served as Secretary of Planning of Bogotá during the Mayor's Office of Luis Eduardo Garzón and Secretary of Habitat in the Mayor's Office of Samuel Moreno.

Studies
Velasco is an economist from the Universidad de los Andes. He is a specialist in Urban Planning Law from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, master in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and has a doctorate in Studies Politicians of the Externado University of Colombia.

Political and public trajectory
She began her professional life in 1989 as an economist and consultant for different companies until 2004. That year, the then Mayor of Bogotá, Luis Eduardo Garzón appointed her as Undersecretary of Planning and Finance of the District Secretary of Education of Bogotá. Subsequently, Garzón appointed her as District Planning Secretary between January 1 of 2006 and January 1 of 2007.

The new mayor of Bogotá, Samuel Moreno appointed her as District Secretary of Habitat for the period between January 1 of 2008 and October 31 of 2009.

On February 1, 2012, she was appointed as Vice President of Public Services and Regulation of the Empresa de Energia de Bogotá. Position he held until November 15 of 2013 during the mayoralty of Gustavo Petro Urrego. Since February 2014, she worked as a consultant in Public Policies and Urban Management of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá during the administrations of Gustavo Petro Urrego and [ [Claudia López Hernández]].

On August 7 of 2022 she was appointed by President Gustavo Petro Urrego as Minister of Housing of Colombia.