Santiago Hoyos is a project lead for the healthy governance project with The Omidyar Group. Before joining TOG, Santiago finished his Masters in Public Policy (MPP) at the University of Chicago. During his MPP, he worked as a consultant for the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, monitoring the Colombian Peace Agreement.

Prior to his time at the University of Chicago, Santiago served in Colombia’s Ministry of Public Affairs where he worked for five years in the Victims and Demobilized Office as well as in the Peace and Victims Office. As a public servant, Santiago coordinated official policy reports for Congress regarding the implementation of the Victims and Land Restitution Law. Finally, he worked with a team that negotiated the provisions between the ethnic communities and national government around the Framework Implementation Plan, an essential document in the peace process between former FARC guerrillas and Colombia’s government.

Santiago holds an undergraduate degree in political science and a minor in economics from Universidad de los Andes.