Fernando Carrillo Flórez (born 13 May 1963) is a Pontifical Xavierian University educated lawyer and economist, with postgraduate studies from Harvard University. He served as Colombia's 11th Minister of the Interior from 2012 to 2013, and 55th Minister of Justice from 1991 to 1992.

Carrillo attended the Cervantes Lyceum from where he graduated in 1978,^[1] he then went on to College at the Pontifical Xavierian University from where graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Economics and a Juris Doctor; his thesis, Sector Financiero y Delincuencia Económica (Financial Sector and Economic Delinquency), co-authored with Jorge Pinzon Sanchez, was published by Editorial Temis Librería. Carrillo pursued further studies in the United States attending Harvard Law School where he earned a Master of Laws in 1987, and returned in the 90's earning a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1994.

Right out off college Carrillo began teaching at his alma mater as Professor of Constitutional Law; he also been Professor of Public Finance at Our Lady of the Rosary University, and the University of La Sabana; Professor of Commercial Law at the University of the Andes, Saint Thomas Aquinas University, and ICESI University; and visiting scholar at various other institutions including Sciences Po, University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, American University, and the Charles III University of Madrid.

On 13 September 2012 Carrillo was named Corresponding Member of the Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence.^[2]

Fernando was born on 13 May 1963 in Bogotá, Colombia^[13] to Rafael Carrillo Piñeros and Adelia Flórez.^[14] He is married to Diana Cristina Serpa Preciado with whom he has two daughters, Laura and Natalia.^[14]

• Binetti, Carlo; Carrillo Flórez, Fernando, eds. (2005). An Unequal Democracy? Seeing Latin America through European Eyes. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank. ISBN 9781597820196. OCLC 613391925.
• Carrillo Flórez, Fernando, ed. (2001). Democracia en Déficit: Gobernabilidad y Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe (in Spanish). Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank. ISBN 9781886938908. OCLC 491704946.
• Jarquín Calderón, Edmundo; Carrillo Flórez, Fernando, eds. (1998). Justice Delayed: Judicial Reform in Latin America. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank. ISBN 9781886938298. OCLC 39340158.
• Carrillo Flórez, Fernando; Pinzón Sánchez, Jorge (1985). Sector Financiero y Delincuencia Eeconómica (in Spanish). Bogotá: Editorial Temis Librería. ISBN 9789586040730. OCLC 14214345.