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Luis David Duque García (b. January 22, 1979) is a renowned Political Consultant, founder and CEO of the company ESTRATEGIA & COMUNICACIONES, dedicated to strategic communication and political organization.

He has worked in 11 presidential campaigns in 9 countries of Latin America, so as advised local, regional and legislative campaigns in more than 12 countries.

Career
Started his career as a political consultant advising mayors in Colombia, bit by bit and with effort built a reputation and his first company in 2005, Buró Político with which took his first step to be a part of the team of advisors that had the task of creating the Social Party of National Unity. This new party is today the largest political force in Colombia; this fact ended with the existing bipartisanship that had existed on the National Congress of Colombia until 2006.

In 2010, he was the former coordinator of the Direct Contact strategy of Juan Manuel Santos' first presidential campaign to reach Colombia's presidency. In 2012 collaborated with presidential campaign of Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico. In 2013 worked in the presidential campaign of Juan Orlando Hernández in Honduras, on a difficult campaign in which got a victory for more than 8 points. In 2014 he worked again with Juan Manuel Santos on his presidential reelection campaign from the hand of JJ Rendón. This would be his las campaign as CEO and associate of the company JJ Rendón & Asociados; from this moment on, and after having built a name as one of the most important political consultants and strategists in Latin America, it was the time to create his own company, specialized in the development of strategies that guarantees electoral success and good governance.

In 2015, Luis David Duque conformed his won political consulting firm, Estrategia & Comunicaciones. This year were held in Colombia elections for local mayors and governors all over the country; Luis David had to introduced a new methodology to electoral campaigns which had been held and managed historically with no defined structures and counting more on experience than on proved working methods.

With the am of sharing his experience and knowledge, he has been professor at major univeristies across Latin America. On the United States at the Centro Interamericano de Gerencia Política; in México at the ITESO - Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara and the Universidad Panamericana; in Honduras at the Universidad de San Pedro Sula; in Dominican Republic at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo; in Colombia at the Universidad de Cartagena, Universidad del Rosario, Universidad del Sinú, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira; in Perú at the Pontificia Universidad Católica and the Universidad César Vallejo; in Argentina at the Pontificia Universidad Católica and the Universidad del Salvador.

Education
He's Social Communicator and Journalist from the Universidad Católica of Pereira, and Specialist in Public Opinion and Political Marketing of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogotá.

He has realized studies in Political Campaign Strategies in The Graduate School of Political Management in George Washington University; and also has studies in Electoral Strategies and Political Strategies Investigations of the Centro Interamericano de Gerencia Política in Miami, United States.

Personal Life
Luis David Duque García was borned in Pereira, Risaralda on January 22, 1979. His father is Luis Alberto Duque Torres (R.I.P), who was major of the city of Pereira, and his mother is Isabel Cristina García de Duque, lawyer; from this marriage, Luis David has 2 brothers, Juan Alberto and Jaime Esteban, actual councilman (2016 - 2019) and president of the Council City of Pereira. His father was the 5th Pereira's mayor by popular election.

He is married to Sandra Betancur, and they have 2 children, Salomé (11) and Samuel (5).

Awards
In 2013 he was recognized by the prestigious magazine Campaigns & Elections with the Rising Star prize which reawards the most important political consultants under 35 years; he is the first Colombian in receiving this award.

In 2014 received a honorífico mention as Consultant Revelation on the Reed Latino Awards.

In 2015 he was awarded with two Victory Awards in the categories "Better Crisis Management" and "Best Printing Piece", for the presidential election campaign of Juan Manuel Santos in 2014, in which he worked with the renowned consultant JJ Rendón.

Publications
In January 2016, starred the cover of the prestigious political magazine Campaigns & Elections Mexico; where he is catalogued as the "New Colombian Giant" of political communication.