08.30 – 08.50 Keynote Address 5: Maria das Graças Silva Foster, Director of Gas and Energy, PETROBRAS

Engineer Maria das Graças Silva Foster holds, since September 2007, the position of Director for Gas & Energy in Petróleo Brasileiro S. A. – Petrobras. Ms. Graça is a graduate in Chemical Engineering from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), she holds a Master’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ), and an MBA in Economics from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. From May 2006 to September 2007 she was serving as the President and CEO of Petrobras Distribuidora S.A.

Previously, she had performed as the President of Petroquisa, a position she took over in September 2005. From January 2003 to September 2005, Ms. Graça was the Mines & Energy Ministry’s Secretary for Oil, Natural Gas, and Renewable Fuels. In that interval, via Presidential Decrees, Ms. Graça also performed as the Interministerial coordinator for the Federal Government’s Biodiesel Programme: Biodiesel Production and Use; and as the National Executive Secretary for the Federal Government’s Programme for the National Oil Industry’s Mobilization (PROMINP). In April 2007, Graça Foster was awarded the decoration of Commander of the Rio Branco Order granted by the Ministry of External Affairs of the Brazilian Government.

08.50 – 09.10 Keynote Address 6: Norio Ichino, Chairman, THE JAPAN GAS ASSOCIATION

Mr. Norio Ichino was elected Chairman of the Japan Gas Association in June 2009. Prior to the current position, he was Vice Chairman of the association. He has been a member of IGU Council for two years.

Mr. Ichino is also Chairman of Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., which he has served since April 2007.

Within Tokyo Gas, the largest gas utility in Japan, he held the following management positions; Vice Chairman (2006-2007), President (2003-2006), Executive Vice President (2002-2003).

Outside the gas industry, he holds a number of positions within the economic and business community in Japan, including Special Advisor of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Special Advisor of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Mr. Ichino was born in 1941 and was educated at Waseda University from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in law.

13.45 – 14.05 Keynote Address 7: George Kirkland, Executive Vice President, Global Upstream and Gas, CHEVRON CORPORATION

George Kirkland is responsible for managing Chevron’s global exploration, production and gas activities. A native of Florida, Kirkland graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in civil engineering in 1972 and 1974, respectively. Upon graduation, he joined Chevron as a construction engineer in New Orleans, Louisiana. From 1980 to 1985, he served as project engineering
manager for the giant Duri steamfl ood project in Indonesia. Kirkland returned to the United States as a senior project manager for Chevron U.S.A. Production Co. in 1985. Over the next three years, he held positions of increasing responsibility in Chevron operations in Midland, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. In 1992, he was named general manager of production for subsidiary Chevron Nigeria Ltd. (CNL) and, in January 1996, became its general manager of asset management. Kirkland was appointed CNL’s chairman and managing director in November 1996.

In January 2000, Kirkland was named president of Chevron U.S.A. Production Co., responsible for exploration and production operations in the United States and Canada. In October 2001, he assumed the position of president of ChevronTexaco Exploration and Production Co. Then in January 2002, he was named president of ChevronTexaco Overseas Petroleum, responsible for managing Chevron’s exploration and production activities outside North America. Kirkland assumed his present position in January 2005.

Kirkland is a member of the board of trustees of Africa-America Institute, a board member of the Corporate Council on Africa, a director of the U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Association, and a director of the US-ASEAN Business Council.

14.05 – 14.25 Keynote Address 8: Jean-François Cirelli, Vice Chairman and President, GDF SUEZ

Jean-François Cirelli (09/07/1958). A graduate of Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris and Ecole Nationale d’Administration, he also holds a degree in Law.

From 1985 to 1995, he held several significant positions at the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Economy and Finance before becoming Technical Advisor to the President of the Republic from 1995 to 1997 and, subsequently, Economic Advisor from 1997 to 2002.

In 2002, he was appointed Deputy Director to the Cabinet of the Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, in charge of economic, industrial and social affairs. In 2005, the Government appointed him to complete Gaz de France’s IPO, following which the company was listed on 8 July 2005. Jean-François Cirelli is also a member of the Board of Directors at Neuf Cegetel and a member of the Supervisory Board at Atos. Jean-François Cirelli was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gaz de France from September 2004 until July 2008 when he became Vice Chairman and President of GDF SUEZ.