Armando António Martins Vara (born March 27, 1954, Vinhais) is a Portuguese politician and banking administrator. He enrolled in philosophy, at the New University of Lisbon, leaving the institution without being awarded a degree. Throughout his life he was an employee at the state-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos where he worked in several different positions ranging from clerk (it was his first job) to administrator (appointed in 2005, three days after had been awarded a degree in international relations by the Independente University), and was member of parliament to the Portuguese Assembleia da República for several years.