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Maria Eugênia Ditzel

Senior Analyst, Corporate Strategy & Analytics Service

Expertise

  • Brazil
  • Chemicals
  • Gas markets

Get in touch with Maria Eugênia

Maria Eugênia is a senior analyst in our Corporate Strategy & Analytics Service, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She focuses on Latin American companies, including Petrobras, Pemex, Ecopetrol and YPF, helping clients assess strategic positioning, benchmark corporate resilience and sustainability, and make informed decisions on capital allocation and portfolio optimisation.

Maria Eugênia joined Wood Mackenzie from McKinsey & Company, where she supported clients across the energy value chain in addressing their most pressing strategic and operational challenges. Previously, she worked at TotalEnergies in the Marketing & Services branch as a product engineer trainee, managing interactions with laboratories and customers to improve product quality and contributed to the EcoSolutions certification of biofuels. Prior to that, she also served as a natural gas analyst at IHS Markit (S&P Global), where she helped clients navigate Latin American gas markets and assess emerging opportunities.

Education

MSc, Energy and Products, Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP)

MSc, Engineering, École Centrale de Nantes (ECN)

BSc, Chemical Engineering, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do

Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)