Clarissa Lins

Mrs Clarissa Lins is a senior executive with consolidated experience in strategy, sustainability, and corporate governance. With a distinguished education background in economy, she worked on relevant projects in the public sector at the beginning of her career - she was part of Brazil’s Ministry of Finance team that produced the economic stabilization program known as the Real Plan in 1994, under President Cardoso. She also served as an Advisor to the President of Brazil’s BNDES Development Bank, participating in the structuring of the country’s large-scale privatization projects from 1995 to 1999. She was head of Corporate Strategy at Petrobras from 1999 to 2002, when the state-owned oil and gas company shifted its strategy and improved its corporate governance practices while doing an IPO in the NYSE.

Clarissa moved her focus more specifically towards Sustainability in 2004, when she joined the FBDS - Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development). In 2013 she founded the consultancy Catavento, advising corporations in the areas of strategy and sustainability. Clarissa was the President of the Brazilian Institute of Petroleum and Gas (IBP) from November 2019 till March 2021, after serving as Executive Director for more than 3 years. She serves on Boards and Committees of leading companies operating in Brazil - including Suzano's Sustainability Committee (the world’s largest producer of market pulp), and the Board of Directors of Votorantim Cimentos. Other companies in which she has held relevant Board / Committee positions include Shell, Vale and Petrobras.

Mrs Lins is a citizen of Brazil.