Current Debate Speaker: Décio Oddone

Décio Oddone

• Director General Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis (ANP), Brazil

Décio Fabricio Oddone da Costa is the Director-Geral of the Brazilian National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), a position he has held since December 2016. In the 1980s, he joined the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras and was part of the team responsible for the wildcat deepwater drilling operations offshore Brazil. He has occupied several managerial positions in Petrobras in Brazil, Argentina, Angola, Libya, and Bolivia, where he was the Chief Executive Officer of Petrobras Bolivia. He was the Chairman of the Board and later Chief Executive Officer of Petrobras Energía S.A. (NYSE: PZE). He was a Statutory Officer and Chief Investments Officer in Braskem S.A. and the Oil & Gas Projects Officer at Prumo Logística S.A., company controlled by EIG Energy Partners. Mr. Oddone has a bachelor degree from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and post-graduation studies in petroleum engineering. He has attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School and the Advanced Management Programme at Insead, France. He has received an honorary PhD degree in Education (Universidad de Aquino, Bolivia).