OLGA SIMBALISTA

OLGA CÔRTES R. SIMBALIST

Member of the Board of Directors of the American Nuclear Society Olga Côrtes Rabelo Leão Simbalista holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from UFMG, a Masters in Nuclear Engineering (UFMG/CNEN) and a specialist in Thermohydraulics of Reactors at Gesellshaft für Kerntechnik im Shifbaum und Shiffhart - GKSS, at Germany. She was Head of the Thermohydraulic Laboratory at the Institute for Radioactive Research - IPR, head of the Strategic Studies Advisory Board and Planning Superintendent at Nuclebrás, planning coordinator at Eletronuclear, assistant to the Financial Board of Furnas Centrais Elétricas, to the presidents of Furnas, Eletrobras and Eletronuclear . She was also Director of Business Management and Investments at Furnas from 2011 to 2016. ) and the MBA in Energy from Gama Filho. He has several works published in the country and abroad, having supervised eight theses. She participates in several entities, such as the Latin American Section of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), where she was successively secretary, vice president and the only woman to hold the presidency throughout the organization's 39 years of existence. He was vice president and president of the Brazilian Association of Nuclear Energy – ABEN, and of the Energy Council of the Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro (ACRJ). He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of ACRJ, of the Technical Board of the National Confederation of Commerce – CNC, of the Arbitration Board of Fundação Getúlio Vargas, of the Board of Directors of ABEN, of the Board of Instituto Ilumina and of the Board of Directors of ANS. In the context of the United Nations, she was Latin America's representative at the Consultancy Group for Nuclear Forecasts, of the International Atomic Energy Agency – IAEA, in Vienna, from 2002 to 2011, and an energy consultant for ECLAC. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Ceal – Companhia de Eletricidade de Alagoas and of CNUepel – Center for Electricity Studies and Research, of the Restructuring Project of the Brazilian Electricity Sector - RESEB/MME and of the Board of Directors of Clube de Engenharia. Her performance in the process of women's social, economic and political development began in 1993, in the Council of the Rio de Janeiro Section of Banco da Mulher, and later, within the scope of the National Network of Banco da Mulher, member of the Board of Directors, director , vice president and president. In 2014, he was elected Personality of the Year 2014 by the UN WEB.
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