Luis Giusti Lugo

Chairman at CITGO Petroleum

Luis Giusti was appointed to the Board in June 2021 and named Chairman of the Board of Directors in September 2021. An oil and finance professional with more than 24 years of experience in corporate finance, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and business development, he is currently senior advisor to independent oil and gas companies focused on production assets in Latin America. Prior to that, he held executive positions for oil and financial corporations in the United States and abroad, including Exploration and Production Director of Orion Energy, partner in Energy Advisors Group, and founder and managing director of Optima Oil Corp. Additionally, he served as director of the Corporación Venezolana del Petróleo (CVP), the entity in charge of safeguarding Venezuela’s foreign assets and PDVSA's hydrocarbon exploitation joint ventures abroad. Mr. Giusti began his career in 1995 with the Venezuelan state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) where he specialized in surface facilities design, oil field infrastructure project management, and drilling services.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Universidad del Zulia and has a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Timeline

  • Chairman

    September, 2021 - present

  • Director