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Graça Foster, as she is also known, is a native of the city of Caratinga, state of Minas Gerais, and a career Petrobras professional. A graduate in Chemical Engineering from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), she holds a Master’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ), and an MBA in Economics from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation.
She was elected the Director of PETROBRAS’ Gas & Energy Business Area on September 21 2007.
She had been serving as the president of Petrobras Distribuidora S.A. since May 2006. In September 2005, she took-over as the president of Petroquisa, a position she accumulated with that of Director for Investor Relations for that company.
Simultaneously, she was also the Executive Manager for Petrochemicals and Fertilizers, connected to Petrobras’ Downstream Board.
From January 2003 to May 2006, Foster was the Mines & Energy Ministry’s Secretary for Oil, Natural Gas, and Renewable Fuels. In that interval, via Presidential Decrees, she also performed as the Interministerial coordinator for the Federal Government’s Biodiesel Program: Biodiesel Production and Use; and as the National Executive Secretary for the Federal Government’s Program for the National Oil Industry’s Mobilization (PROMINP).
Before that, she had already held managerial positions at the Gas & Energy Business Unit and at the Leopoldo Miguez de Mello Research & Development Center (CENPES), at Petrobras, in addition to at the Transportadora Brasileira do Gasoduto Bolívia-Brasil (TBG).
Graça Foster is the President of the Board of Directors of Liquigás Distribuidora S.A., Vice-President of the Board of Directors of Companhia Brasileira de Petróleo Ipiranga, and Member of the Board of Directors of the Inst. Brasileiro de Petróleo, Gás e Biocombustíveis. Previously, she served on the Board of Directors of Braskem S.A., Petroquímica União S.A., Rio Polímeros S.A., Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto Bolívia-Brasil S.A., and of Petrobras Transporte S.A.
In April 2007, Graça Foster was decorated with the Foreign Relations Ministry’s Rio Branco Order’s title of Commendator. | 