Daniel Quintero Calle (born 26 July 1980) is a Colombian politician who has served as the mayor of Medellín since 2020. Quintero was controversially suspended from 10 May to 21 June 2022 by inspector general Margarita Cabello Blanco for allegedly attempting to interfere in the 2022 presidential election. The youngest individual to hold that office thus far, Quintero was previously the Deputy Minister of the Digital Economy from 2016 to 2017, in the government of President Juan Manuel Santos. Early life and education Daniel Quintero Calle was born in Campo Valdés, a suburb on the northeastern slopes of the Aburrá Valley. Soon after he was born, the family moved to Tricentenario, a working-class suburb farther north of the city center, where Quintero and his two brothers were raised by their single mother, Stella Calle, a self-employed woman. Quintero commenced his university studies at the early age of 14 when he enrolled in the National University of Colombia. However, that same year his mother (39) suffered a fatal heart attack that exacerbated the family's financial situation. Quintero was forced to interrupt his university studies soon after his mother's death due to financial hardship. To survive, Quintero and his brothers tried all sorts of informal self-employed jobs such as street vending, delivering parcels and selling home-cooked desserts. Over the next four years Quintero attempted to resume his university studies several times, but was unable to afford his ongoing tuition fees. Eventually an employee in the university enrollments office took pity on him and offered to pay his tuition fees. Quintero resumed his studies in 1999 and in 2004 earned his undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Antioquia. Between 2004 and 2008, he also completed further specialization studies in applied finance at University of Los Andes, Bogotá. In 2009, he travelled to the United States to complete a short course in Public Financial Management at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In 2011, Quintero travelled to the United States again to pursue postgraduate studies at Boston University, Massachusetts. There he earned a master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) a year later. Personal life Quintero is married to Diana Marcela Osorio with whom he has two daughters. Quintero grew up with his two brothers, Miguel Andrés and Juan David. Although he did not grow up with his father, Orlando Quintero, a car mechanic, Quintero maintains a close relationship with him. A