Antonio Brufau Niubó (born 12 March 1948) is the CEO and Chairman of the multinational oil and gas company

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, a role he has been in since 2004.

Career

After education, Brufau worked in

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where he became a partner and a director of auditing. In 1988, he joined

La Caixa La Caixa, also known as the "La Caixa" Foundation ( es, Fundación ”la Caixa”), is a not-for-profit banking foundation based in Catalonia. Originally a savings bank (''caja''), it reorganized in the 2000s and 2010s: Its commercial assets are ...

, as deputy general manager and head industrial entity. Within this capacity, along with then President Josep Vilarasau and Isidre Fainé, he assisted in the amalgamation of the Pension Fund of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands and Box de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad Barcelona. In 1994, on behalf of La Caixa, he became president of

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. In July 1997, he was appointed the president of the

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division at Repsol, a post he held until 2004. From 1996 to 2004, Brufau was a member of the Board of Directors of Repsol. In July 2002, he was appointed president of Circulo de Economía de Barcelona, a position that he held until July 2005. In 2004, he was appointed CEO of

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YPF. Since his appointment at Repsol, the company has revamped its organizational structure and set the priorities for growth in upstream growth, downstream growth and

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. In addition to his roles at Repsol, Brufau is the vice chairman of

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. In April 2021 Spanish High Court placed Brufau and , former chairman of

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, under formal investigation. The court is investigating whether Repsol and Caixabank hired a security firm belonging to former police chief José Manuel Villarejo, to spy on a business competitor.

Awards

Brufau was awarded the 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year award by the Federation of Spanish Chambers of Commerce in Europe (FEDECOM) in recognition of his stewardship of Repsol's increasing activity outside its country of origin.

Education and personal details

Brufau has a degree in Economics from the

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and an MA in Economics from IESE Business School - Universidad de Navarra. He was the only Spanish member in the Executive Committee of the

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until December 2005.

References

External links

(Repsol profile)(Businessweek profile)
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