Guillermo Reyes

Guillermo Francisco Reyes González (born October 26, 1965) is a Colombian lawyer, writer and academic. Since August 11, 2022, he has held the position of Minister of Transport of his country, under the government of Gustavo Petro. Previously he was Deputy Minister of Justice, Counselor Minister of the Colombian Embassy before the United Nations and President of the National Electoral Council.

Education Guillermo Reyes graduated as a lawyer from the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Universidad del Rosario de Colombia in 1989 and specialized in Tax Law at the same university, while he was part of the creation of the Séptima balloteta movement, which led him to be an advisor in the Constituent Assembly of Colombia in 1991. In 2010 he obtained his Diploma in Advanced Studies – DEA in Philosophy of Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and, in 2015, he received the degree of Doctor of Law

Guillermo Reyes was president of the Colombian National Electoral Council from September 2002 to September 2006.

Allegations of plagiarism In October 2015, Semana alleged that Guillermo Reyes had plagiarised in his Complutense University of Madrid PhD thesis.

There were new allegations in 2022. Rodrigo Uprimny stated that Reye's reasoning about having provided errata for his texts was "unacceptable" , since errata are appropriate for minor errors, not to explain plagiarism of "whole pages".