The Board of Directors of Petrobras unanimously approved today (26) the name of Jean Paul Prates as the company’s director until the next general meeting of shareholders and elected him president of the company, with a mandate until April 13 of this year, same period of the other members of the executive board. Prates, who assumes the interim presidency of Petrobras due to the resignation of his predecessor, Caio Paes de Andrade, nominated by Jair Bolsonaro, was nominated for the position by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and took office as president and board member this Thursday- fair. He should be confirmed in office by the general meeting of shareholders that will meet until the month of April, also approving the election of directors. According to Petrobras’ press office, the company’s directors were elected by the Board of Directors in April 2021, for a period of two years. The entire board, including the president, ends their term on the same date, which explains why Prates’ term will also end in April, when he should be appointed as president of the company by the shareholders’ meeting. The Board of Directors is responsible for approving the election and renewal of the board of directors. Education Jean Paul Terra Prates is 54 years old, is a lawyer, graduated from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, master in economics and management of oil, gas and engines from the French Institute of Petroleum and master in energy policy and environmental management from the University of Pennsylvania He was a member of the legal advisory services at Petrobras Internacional SA (Braspetro), editor of the magazine Oil & Gas Journal Latinoamericana and executive director of Expetro Consultoria em Recursos Naturais Ltda., the largest national oil consultancy during the 1990s and 2000s, when he coordinated projects of several public and private, national and international companies, unions and sectoral entities, and advised governments, regulatory agencies and parliamentarians in all areas of the energy sector.As Secretary of Energy for Rio Grande do Norte, Prates led the state towards energy self-sufficiency and national leadership in wind generation, in addition to having consolidated a refinery and gas and biome thermoelectric plants ssa in that state and built bases for offshore solar and wind energy projects (at sea). Legal milestones Prates went through Rio Grande do Norte; president of the Parliamentary Front for Natural Resources and Energy and of the Brazil-Arab Countries Parliamentary Group. He is the author of important legal frameworks involving the energy transition and sustainable practices, including the law that regulates carbon capture and storage activities and the offshore energy law, and was rapporteur for the Marco Legal das Ferrovias, the new laws on production of biogas in sanitary landfills and the new sustainable urban mobility law. specialized in energy, the European Recharge and the North American Windpower. He was also named one of the 25 most influential names in the global wind industry by Windpower magazine.
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