- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 14, 1953 (72 years old)
- Place of birth
- Panama City, Panama
Jaime Alemán
Jaime Eduardo Alemán Healy (born 14 November 1953) is a Panamanian lawyer, businessman, world traveler, and diplomat. He served as Ambassador of Panama to the United States from 11 August 2009 to 2 January 2011, appointed by President Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal. Alemán was born in 1953 in Panama City, Panama. He spent part of his childhood in Washington, D.C., where his father, Roberto Alemán Zubieta, served as a negotiator for the Robles-Johnson Treaties and later as Ambassador of Panama to the United States (1968–1969). His brother, José Miguel Alemán, is a Panamanian politician who ran for president in 2004. Alemán holds a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law (1978) and a B.A. in economics from the University of Notre Dame. He is an honorary member of Duke's School of Law Board of Visitors and received the International Alumni Achievement Award from the school in 2003. He has also travelled to the 193 United Nations member states, to the North Pole and South Pole and participated on a suborbital spaceflight with Blue Origin on the New Shepard NS-32 mission. According to travel record sources, with these combined achievements, Alemán has been described as the first person to complete a travel 'Grand Slam' by visiting every country, both poles, and going into space.
