Yara International ASA, Oslo, on Aug. 12 announced the appointment of Marcelo Altieri as the company’s new President in Brazil, effective Aug. 1. The executive, who has been with Yara since 2014, was Vice President of Operations in Latin America. He also led the company’s operations in Colombia.
“I am very excited to lead the transformation that Yara is implementing in agriculture and in the other chains where it operates,” said Altieri. “Brazil is one of the company’s main operations in the world, and plays a major role in the construction of this commitment that we have assumed with climate neutrality by 2050.
“To overcome the challenges that lie ahead, we will expand the sharing and use of Yara’s knowledge, and will work in a collaborative model to improve crops and soil health, decarbonize production, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, making our agriculture increasingly productive, sustainable, and resilient,” he continued.
Altieri, an agronomist, is from Uruguay. He graduated from the Universidad de La Republica (Uruguay), and has specializations in Marketing and Finance from Boston University in the US and Global Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK, as well as an MBA from Mexico’s EGADE Business School.