Maiza Pimenta Goulart is currently Executive Manager of the Petrobras Research Center – CENPES, leading the team responsible for more than nine hundred RD&I projects with several partner companies and institutions.

She joined Petrobras in 2003 and since then has held several leadership positions in the areas of Operation, Engineering of Oil Platform Projects and Implementation of Capital Projects for all segments of the company.

Maiza is graduated with a master’s degree in Naval Architect and Marine Engineer from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She also has Executive MBA and master’s in business administration from Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil, with a Post-MBA extension module from the Kellogg School of Management, in Chicago.