Gabriel Gurméndez Armand-Ugon (born July 4, 1961) is a Uruguayan industrial engineer, business executive and politician of the Colorado Party (PC), who served as president of the National Administration of Telecommunications from 2020 to 2023, and as Minister of Transport and Public Works in 2004.

[1][2] Gurmendez was born in Montevideo within a family with long ties to the Colorado Party, and graduated from the University of the Republic with a degree in electrical engineering, also obtaining diplomas in economics and business management.

In the political sphere, he has served as a technical advisor in various government institutions, as well as president of the National Administration of Telecommunications and Minister of Transport and Public Works.

[4] His paternal grandfather was the diplomat Carlos María Gurméndez who, while serving as ambassador to the Netherlands during World War II, saved 25 Jewish families from the Nazis by granting them Uruguayan passports or appointing them to positions in the embassy.

[12] In that position he directed the expansion of Terminal 3, inaugurated by Mexican President Felipe Calderón in 2007, as well as the second runway and control tower project, which was one of the most ambitious investment programs for airport infrastructure in the country.

[13] From 2015 to 2020 Gurméndez served as CEO of HRU S.A, the management company of the Hipodromo Nacional de Maroñas and concessionaire of different racecourses in the country.