Approved by the Board of Directors, she has already assumed her position as board member and president
Por Redação
Petrobras' Board of Directors, at a meeting held today (24), appointed Magda Chambriard as a Board Member and elected her as the company's new CEO, the state-owned company said in a statement released on Friday (May 24).
Chambriard took office in both positions on this date and joined the Board immediately, without the need to call a Shareholders' Meeting for this purpose.
Chambriard holds a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from COPPE/UFRJ (1989) and a Civil Engineering degree from UFRJ (1979), with a specialization in Reservoir Engineering and Formation Evaluation and a specialization in Oil and Gas Production, at what is now known as Petrobras University. She has taken several courses, in addition to those related to oil and gas production, including Management Development in Production Engineering, Negotiation of Exploration and Production Contracts, Qualification in Negotiation in the Oil Industry, Risk Management, Accounting, Management, Leadership, Development for the Board of Directors.
She began her career at Petrobras in 1980, always working in the Production area, where she accumulated knowledge of all the areas under production in Brazil. She was transferred to the ANP to take on the role of advisor to the Exploration and Production director in 2002, when she was working as an E&P business consultant in Petrobras' New E&P Business area. At the ANP, soon after taking over the advisory role, she also took over the Exploration and Block Definition superintendencies, with a view to bidding rounds. He was responsible for implementing the ANP's Multiannual Geology and Geophysics Plan, which resulted in the collection of essential data for successful bidding in new frontier sedimentary basins.
He took over the ANP's Board of Directors in 2008 and the General Directorate in 2012, having led the creation of the Safety and Environment Superintendence, the Information Technology Superintendence, the work related to studies and the drafting of contracts and public notices, the technical studies that culminated in the first pre-salt bid, as well as the traditional concession bids. He was responsible for the areas of Auditing, Internal Affairs, Public Prosecutor's Office, Bid Promotion, Supply, Inspection of Fuel Distribution and Resale, Human Resources, Administrative-Financial, Government Relations, as well as those related to the Exploration and Production segment.