Council chooses new interim president of EPE

O board of directors of EPE (Energy Research Company) chose among the current members of the executive board Angela Livino to serve as interim president of the company. The engineer will hold the position until the new president takes office, without prejudice to her duties as Director of Corporate Management.

Angela will replace Thiago Barral, who submitted a formal request to resign from the position of President of EPE to assume the position of Secretary of Planning and Energy Transition of the Ministry of Energy Mines. A career employee at EPE, Thiago Barral has been part of the company's team for 15 years, remaining at the head of EPE's presidency for the last four years.

Angela Livino has worked at EPE for 14 years, working in the Presidency's Office from 2017 to 2019. Previously she was in the area of generation planning and energy studies, participating in the preparation of Ten-Year Plans, in the generation expansion part.

The new president has a Master's and Doctorate in Civil Engineering, with a specialization in water resources and the environment from COPPE/UFRJ, in addition to being a sandwich doctorate at Harvard University, in the Harvard Kennedy Sustainability Program School of Government between September 2012 and August 2013, having been a Fulbright/Capes scholarship holder during this period.

At EPE, Angela also coordinated, planned and developed several studies linked to various energy sources. He worked in the coordination of the methodology group for validating the computational models used for planning and programming the electrical system and had important involvement in the dynamics of new energy auctions since 2005.

Before EPE, she was an engineer in the Operation Planning Management of the National Electric System Operator (ONS) from 2001 to 2005 and from 1997 to 2001 and was a Contracted Researcher, Master's Fellow and Intern in the Energy Studies Programs of the Energy Research Center. Eletrobras Electric Energy – CEPEL