Armando Zamora is a former president of the National Hydrocarbons Agency of Colombia on two occasions and across four governments until 2022.He is currently an independent consultant and advisor on energy governance and the energy transition as Director of AZ Energy (UK) Ltd, Director of the Centre for Studies on Carbon and Energy Management in Bogotá, Deputy Director of the Energy Producers for Sustainable Energy Group in London and participates in various advisory boards.
Formerly he was a deputy director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland; and has been a senior consultant and director with various international consultancies, including the Boston Consulting Group, AT Kerney, Schlumberger Business Consulting, Accenture Energy Strategy, and Ilex Energy Consulting (now AFRY).
He has a BSc from Los Andes University in Bogotá, has graduate degrees on Nuclear Engineering and Energy Policy and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, and an MBA from the International Management Development Institute in Lausanne.