Antonio Brufau Niubó

Biographical Information
"Mollerussa (Lérida), 1948. Graduate in Economics by the University of Barcelona and Master by the IESE. He began his professional career at Arthur Andersen, where he became Partner and Director of Auditing. In 1988, he joined la Caixa as Deputy Managing Director. From 1999 to 2004, he held the position of Managing Director for the la Caixa Group and from 1997 to 2004 he was Chairman of Gas Natural Group.

"During his extensive business career, Antonio Brufau has served on the Board of Directors of several companies, including Enagás, Abertis, Aguas de Barcelona, Colonial, Suez, Caixa Holding, the CaixaBank France and CaixaBank Andorra. Until December 2005, he was the only Spanish member in the Executive Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). In July 2002, he was appointed president of Circulo de Economía de Barcelona, a position that he occupied until July 2005.

"Currently, he is Chief Executive Officer of Repsol YPF, Vice-Chairman of Gas Natural SDG, S.A., and Chairman of YPF, S.A. and Fundation Repsol. He is also member of the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT), Advisory Board of Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales (CEOE), Asociación Española de Directivos, Círculo de Economía, Foundation Privada Instituto Ildefons Cerdà and Foundation CEDE (Confederación Española de Directivos y Ejecutivos).

"Mr. Brufau was appointed Director of Repsol YPF by resolution of the Board of Directors on July 23rd, 1996, subsequently ratified by the Annual Shareholders Meeting hold on June 6th, 1997 and re-elected by the Annual Shareholders Meeting on March 24th, 1999, on April 4th, 2003 and on May 9th, 2007. "