Santos selected commencement speaker

Fr. Jenkins announces Juan Manuel Santos as principal speaker at 2023 commencement ceremony

Observer Staff Report in a statement released monday morning, notre dame president

Fr. John Jenkins announced former colombian president and nobel peace prize laureate Juan manuel santos as the principal speaker at the university’s commencement ceremony on may 21. santos, who served as president of colombia from 2010 to 2018, was the sole recipient of the distinguished award in 2016 for his role in ending colombia’s 52-year-long civil war, the longest armed conflict in the western hemisphere.

“president santos honored us with his presence on campus last fall as a distinguished policy fellow in our Keough school of global affairs, and we look