Armando Zamora
Armando Zamora is the former Director General of the National Hydrocarbons Agency of Colombia (ANH) where he held office since its creation in 2003 by the government of President Alvaro Uribe, until October 2011. He holds a BSc in engineering from Los Andes University in Bogotá; an MSc and a doctoral degree (Nuc Eng) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of the USA; and an MBA from the IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Before his tenure at the ANH, Armando was a director of ILEX Energy Consulting, a specialist consultancy in Oxford, England; the Deputy Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland, where he is a honorary member of the Global Faculty; and an international management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in London and Madrid.
Early on, in Colombia, he held various posts in the former State coal enterprise, Carbocol – now El Cerrejón company; the Institute of Nuclear Affairs; and Coinvertir, the national corporation for the promotion of foreign investment.
Currently he is working independently as a part-time academic, consultant and entrepreneur, based in Bogotá.
