Santiago Arango Aramburo, is a full professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in the area of operational research, energy markets, renewable energy, energy and climate policy. He has a Ph.D. in Simulation from University of Bergen, Norway; Postdoc in Energy Modelling, University of Lugano, Switzerland. He has worked as a consultant for government and private companies in deregulation of public services, modeling and simulation in the energy and mining sector, climate change mitigation and adaptation, etc. His work has been published in indexed journals such as Management Decision, Utilities Policy, Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Renewable Energy, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Cleaner Production, ant others.

He worked in an experimental economics work for the Norwegian authorities for the market design of tradable green certificates, which is now in place. Santiago participated in the modelling component to assess the effect of carbon taxes and abatement targets to achieve CO2 reductions in Colombia; which has been published in Energy Economics and is in place in the last Colombian tax reform. Additionally, he has developed and performed simulation of the potential abatement of GHG emissions in applied academic work.