Ieda Gomes Yell

She spent 14 years with BP plc. Prior to BP she was CEO of Brazil’s largest gas utility, the Sao Paulo Gas Company. Her non-executive director roles include Saint Gobain, Exterran Corporation, Prumo Logistica and the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain.

Ieda is a senior visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and on the Advisory Board of Fundação Getúlio Vargas’ FGV Energia (Brazil). She is a founding director of WILL Latam (Women in Leadership in Latin America) and co-chair of Access for Women in Energy.

Ieda has a BSc, Chemical Engineering (Universidade Federal da Bahia), an MSc, Energy (University of São Paulo), and a Masters, Environmental Engineering (Polytechnic School of Lausanne). She was Brazil’s Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year in 2001.