João Pedro Burnay Summavielle

João Summavielle graduated in Economics at Oporto University (FEP) and holds several post-graduate degrees, namely in General Management (Oporto Business School), Advanced Finance (Catholic University in Lisbon), and the Advanced Management Program for Leadership (INSEAD).

He started his career in 1994 in Oporto/Portugal as a financial analyst, developing scoring and credit rating models for a financial institution (INH) and then as an internal auditor in Sonae, one of the most important Non-Financial Portuguese Corporations.

Later, in 1997, he moved to Portgas, the Natural Gas Distribution company for the North of Portugal, as internal controller, and later on he was promoted to Finance Director, as head of Accounting, Tax, P&C, and Finance. From 2006 to 2009, he moved to Spain (Bilbao), where he was invited to join Naturgas Group, one of the leading companies in the Natural Gas market in Spain, leading the Global Finance & Procurement departments.

In 2009, he was appointed Executive Finance Director for EDP Renewables. Last December, he was invited to take over the role of EDP Group Finance Director, on top of his current role at EDP Renewables.