Karen Abudinen

Karen Cecilia Abudinen Abuchaibe (born September 24, 1976) is a Colombian lawyer and politician. Abudinen from 2012 to 2014, served as Secretary of Social Management during the municipal administration of Elsa Noguera, then from 2016 to 2017 would serve as Secretary of District Education of Barranquilla. Later from 2017 to 2018 she would serve as Director General of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, she would subsequently serve as High Councilor for the Regions from 2018 to 2020 and simultaneously as

High Councilor for Political and Legislative Affairs from 2019 to 2020, she would later be appointed Minister of Information and Communication Technologies from 2020 to 2021, a position she would later resign from after being involved in a corruption scandal involving her in the embezzlement of 70,000 million colombian pesos ($17.5 million USD) as well as irregular procurement.