Nivio Ziviani will be part of the Board of Directors of Petrobras and also has more than 180 scientific articles in the areas of technology

Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors, in a meeting held yesterday, approved the appointment of Mr. Nivio Ziviani, appointed by the controlling shareholder, for the position of member of the company's Board of Directors. This appointment must be submitted to the resolution of the next General Shareholders' Meeting to be held.

Nivio Ziviani is a Mechanical Engineer from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1971), Master in Informatics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1976) and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada (1982). He is an information technology specialist, outstanding academic and entrepreneur.

Professor Emeritus of the Department of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais since 2005 and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2007, Nivio Ziviani has received, throughout his career, several awards and honors, including the National Order of Scientific Merit, in the Commander (2007) and Grand Cross (2018) classes.

Professor Nivio Ziviani is the author of the book Projeto de Algorithmos and co-author of more than 180 scientific articles in the areas of algorithms, information retrieval, artificial intelligence and related areas. As an entrepreneur, he founded several companies based on knowledge generated within the University, such as Kunumi (2016), Neemu (2010), Akwan (2000) and Miner (1998).

Source: Petrobras Press