Orlando Sardi De Lima | |
Ambassador From: | Colombia |
Country: | Spain |
Term Start: | 10 January 2011 |
Term End: | 2013 |
Predecessor: | Carlos Rodado Noriega |
Successor: | Fernando Carrillo Flórez |
President: | Juan Manuel Santos |
Ambassador From2: | Colombia |
Country2: | Andorra |
Term Start2: | 9 March 2011 |
Predecessor2: | Carlos Rodado Noriega |
President2: | Juan Manuel Santos |
Office3: | President of Proexport |
Term Start3: | 15 September 1998 |
Term End3: | 1 October 2000 |
Predecessor3: | Lázaro Mejía Arango |
Successor3: | Angela María Orozco Gómez |
President3: | Andrés Pastrana Arango |
Birth Date: | 15 August 1950 |
Birth Place: | Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia |
Nationality: | Colombian |
Spouse: | Stella Aristizábal |
Children: | Felipe Sardi Aristizábal Juan Carlos Sardi Aristizábal Daniel Sardi Aristizábal |
Alma Mater: | University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (BScAg) |
Profession: | Agricultural Engineer |
Orlando Sardi de Lima (born 15 August 1950 in Cali, Colombia)[1] is the current Ambassador of Colombia to Spain with dual accreditation to the Colombian missions in Andorra, Algeria and Morocco. An agricultural engineer from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Sardi has also served as President of Proexport from 1998 to 2000, and has been in the directives of various private and public firms including Winchester Oil & Gas, Comagro, Banco Ganadero S.A, Bancóldex, and the Colombian Institute of Agricultural Marketing (Idema), he also worked in the presidential campaigns of Andrés Pastrana Arango, and Juan Manuel Santos.[2] [3] [4]