Orlando Sardi de Lima

Orlando Sardi De Lima
Colombia Ambassador to Spain
In office
10 January 2011  2013
PresidentJuan Manuel Santos
Preceded byCarlos Rodado Noriega
Succeeded byFernando Carrillo Flórez
Colombia Ambassador to Andorra
Assumed office
9 March 2011
PresidentJuan Manuel Santos
Preceded byCarlos Rodado Noriega
President of Proexport
In office
15 September 1998  1 October 2000
PresidentAndrés Pastrana Arango
Preceded byLázaro Mejía Arango
Succeeded byAngela María Orozco Gómez
Personal details
Born (1950-08-15) 15 August 1950
Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
SpouseStella Aristizábal
ChildrenFelipe Sardi Aristizábal
Juan Carlos Sardi Aristizábal
Daniel Sardi Aristizábal
Alma materUniversity of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (BScAg)
ProfessionAgricultural Engineer

Orlando Sardi de Lima (born 15 August 1950 in Cali, Colombia) 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.