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William Dau Chamat
William Jorge Dau Chamat (Cartagena, May 16, 1952) is a lawyer, anti-corruption activist and the current mayor of Cartagena de Indias.

Biography
Dau attended primary school in his hometown Cartagena and finished his studies in New York. He studied law in Bogota at the University of Rosario specializing in Tax Law. In Cartagena, he worked for 13 years as a lawyer during which time he created the anti-corruption watchdog, Honest Cartagena Corporation (Corporación Cartagena Honesta). He became one of only a few private individuals to win a legal case against the World Bank for financing an underwater sewage pipe for the utility company, Aguas de Cartagena, in his hometown, Cartagena.

In 2004, he fled Colombia after receiving death threats and sought political asylum in the United States of America where he accepted an invitation to attend Columbia University in New York. In New York, he created another anti-corruption organisation, Let's Save Cartagena (Salvemos a Cartagena).

Mayor of Cartagena
In the regional elections of 2019, he was elected the mayor of Cartagena with 28.87% of the vote, defeating 15 other candidates, William Garcia Tirado of the Christian political party, Free and Fair Colombia (Colombia Justa Libres) who even though he came second he did not accept a seat on the Cartagena local council, the ex-acting mayor, Yolanda Wong Baldiris, of the U Party, ex-foreign relations minister, Fernando Araujo Perdomo of the coalition, Together We'll Make the Change (Juntos Haremos el Cambio), made up of the Democratic Center and MIRA political parties, the owner of the local TV station, Canal Cartagena, Nabil Baladi, of the coalition Let's Transform Cartagena (Transformemos a Cartagena), an alliance between the MAIS and the Independent Democratic Pole, Minerva Romero Julio, of the Afro-Colombian Democratic Alliance, Jaime Hernández Amín, of the independent movement Let's Change (Cambiemos), German Viana Guerrero, of the AICO political party, Wilman Herrera Imitola, Party for Ethnic Assertion, Rosmery Torres Saenz, of the FARC political party, and the ex-acting mayor Sergio Londoño Zurek of the Resurgent Colombia party. Other candidates that withdraw before election day included Adelina Covo, of the political movement Humane Colombia-UP, the journalist, Edison Lucio Torres, the ex-candidate Claudia Fadul Rosa, of the movement Citizens Committed to Cartagena and Armando Córdoba Julio, the actual Secretary of Citizen Participation in Dau's current administration of the Green Alliance party.