Federico Gutiérrez is serving as the Mayor of Medellín for the second time. In October 2023, he became the city's most-voted-for mayor in history, receiving over 689,000 votes, which accounted for 73% of the total votes.

He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Medellín, and he is also specialized in Senior Management and Political Science from the Pontifical Bolivarian University. Fico, as he is known by the people, remained the country's top mayor throughout his first term (2016 – 2019), according to most local governance performance surveys.

Fico's recognition and popularity among the people of Medellín and many Colombians are the result of a life dedicated to public service: he was a Municipal Youth Counselor and a Municipal Planning Counselor during his university years, and later, he was elected as a City Councilor of Medellín for two consecutive terms. In 2009, he was acknowledged as the Outstanding Young Person of the Year in the category of political, legal, and governmental affairs, an award given by the Junior Chamber of Colombia. He has also worked as a consultant on Comprehensive Urban Security for the cities of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Celaya (Mexico).

In 2022, he ran for the presidency of Colombia with the Creemos movement, securing over five million votes. In 2023, Creemos, the movement inspired by his leadership, received legal status as a party, positioning itself as a different alternative in Colombian politics.

Politics as a way to find solutions to social problems and public service as a tool to help people has been Fico's life project. He has never stopped walking the streets and studying the realities of the city and the country, listening to its citizens, gathering proposals from various social sectors, and thinking about how to contribute to the transformations demanded by today's Colombia. The natural setting for Fico is the street among the people. He wants to continue working for Colombia and its regions to seek peace for families and opportunities for progress for everyone through a governance model based on citizen trust, institutional solidity, and teamwork among the public sector, private sector, academia, and civil society, without class antagonisms or hatred.