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How Global 500 women CEOs got their start

Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
Company: Petrobras
Global 500 rank: 23

Foster got her start in 1978 at Petrobras, as a trainee engineer.

Degrees
BS, Chemical Engineering, Universidade Federal Fluminense, 1978
Masters, Nuclear Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1979
MBA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, 1999


By Colleen Leahey, reporter @FortuneMagazine - Last updated July 09 2012: 11:40 AM ET
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