According to the company’s website press release on April 26, 2023, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 04/06/2023, informs that its Board of Directors elected Mr. Maurício Tolmasquim to the Board of Energy Transition and Sustainability of the Company, which will coordinate the activities of decarbonization, climate change, new technologies and sustainability and will incorporate the commercial activities of natural gas, with a term until 04/13/2025, the same term as the other members of the Executive Board.
His nomination was submitted to the internal corporate governance procedures, including the respective compliance and integrity analyses required for the company's succession process, which included the People Committee's appreciation and then deliberation by the Board of Directors. Below is the resume of the new Director:
Mauricio Tolmasquim is Executive Manager of Strategy and Planning at Petrobras. He recently retired from his position as Full Professor of the Energy Planning Program of the Graduate Engineering Program (COPPE/UFRJ). He was CEO of the Empresa de Pesquisa Energética (EPE) for over 11 years coordinating studies to subsidize the planning of the energy sector, covering electric power, oil and natural gas and their oil products and biofuels. Under his management, Brazil successfully launched 37 energy auctions, contracting 92 GW of new electricity power generation capacity. He led the study that supports Brazil's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the UNFCCC in 2015 and coordinated the studies that subsidized the elaboration of the new regulatory framework of the pre-salt.
He was Executive Secretary and Acting Minister of the Ministry of Mines and Energy for about two and a half years, and was responsible for coordinating the working group that designed the regulatory framework of the electric power sector in force since 2004. He was a visiting researcher at the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) and the Electricity Policy Group at the Harvard Kennedy School. As a result of the renewable energy auctions implemented in Brazil and adopted by several Latin American countries, he was elected by Latin Trade Magazine as one of the 25 people who transformed Latin America in the last quarter century. He was honored by Itamaraty with the degree of Grand Officer of the Order of Rio Branco, which distinguishes meritorious service and civic virtues.
He was also elected a member of the Brazilian Academy of Engineering, a recognition of the exceptional talents of this profession. He was included in The Recharge Magazine's list of Thought Leader, which considers some of the biggest names in the wind and solar industry. Mauricio has also been included in Wind Power Monthly's list of the 30 most important global people in the wind industry. Tolmasquim is a production engineer from UFRJ and an economist from UERJ, with a Master's degree in Energy Planning from COPPE/UFRJ and a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in France. He is the author or co-author of 25 books and more than a hundred articles published in scientific journals and newspapers.
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