Răzvan POPESCU holds a Master in Sciences (Msc Investment Management) at Bayes Business School London and is PhD student in Economy at Bucharest University of Economic Studies. He started his career in 2007 working for 9 years in one of the most precious Romanian financial institutions – the Romanian National Bank as Portfolio Manager, responsible with managing the foreign exchange reserve. Mr. POPESCU is member of the Oil and Gas Employer’s Federation (FPPG) Directorate and representative member of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP), the international oil industry forum. As of August 2022, Mr. POPESCU is Chief Executive Officer of the largest natural gas producer in Romania – SNGN ROMGAZ SA, after acting for two years as Chief Financial Officer. He coordinated from a financial standpoint the most important transaction in the history of the Romanian energy sector for the last 30 years, namely purchase of Exxon participating interest in Neptun Deep block in the Black Sea and its financing. Under his mandate, in the context of the inaugural EUR 1 billion bond issuance carried out by a majority state-owned Romanian company, ROMGAZ was awarded, for the first time, a ‘BBB-’ rating with a stable outlook by the international rating agency Fitch. The rating reflects the Company’s successful EUR 1 billion bond issuance to support the development of the Neptun Deep project.