Juan Suárez Coppel

Juan was appointed to the Board effective 27 May 2019 and is a member of the Nominations Committee and the Audit & Risk Committee. Juan has extensive experience in energy and resources in the Americas and was previously Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Executive Officer of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), a senior executive with Grupo Modelo and an independent non-executive director of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. During the 1990s, Juan was the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Finance Mexico, a senior executive with Banamex (now Citi) and Head of Corporate Finance and then Treasurer of Grupo Televisa, Mexico. Juan has a PhD in Economics from The University of Chicago. During the 1980s, he held various academic roles including as a full-time professor in the ITAM Department of Economics, visiting professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona Department of Economics and associate professor at Brown University in Rhode Island. Juan is a resident of Mexico.