About

Fernán Ignacio Bejarano Arias has served as vice president of legal affairs at Ecopetrol, Colombia’s largest company, since 2016 after a long in-house career in the energy and financial sectors in Colombia. He is a powerful leader known for being calm under pressure, and known for his emphasis on continually expanding his team’s education of current legal issues and trends, and well as business needs, in order to offer comprehensive advice. He has brought this focus with him to the role by ensuring that his team act comprehensively in all legal areas of the corporation, and is acting preventively instead of reactively to any issues that it faces. Bejarano fosters ‘a sense of belonging’, as he says, within his team and leads the team across the different offices as one large force. He has been involved in major developments in the company’s recent expansion across Latin America with the founding of the Rubiales field, with Pacific Rubiales in 2016, and off shore exploration in the Gulf of Mexico with its “Warrior 2” program.