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Brazilian, Graduate in Economics at the University of Sao Paolo and postgraduate at the Hertford College, Oxford, this new Repsol YPF independent director has been President of the Brazilian oil company Petrobras, is a great international expert in energy and has occupied several positions of relevance in his own country and abroad.
Part of his career has been spent as a civil servant for the Brazilian government, starting in the Financial Secretariat of the State of Sao Paolo, to later become Secretary of the Budget Office for State Companies.
From 1985 to 1988 he held the position of Vice Minister of Planning in Brazil.Having served as Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Express Bank between 1988 and 1999, Mr. Reichstul�s career became strongly linked to the oil sector when in 1999 he became Chairman of Petrobras, a position in which he continued until 2001.
During this period, the Brazilian state-owned oil company underwent a process of deep transformation and modernization.. | 