Mr. Maarten Wetselaar

Prior to joining Cepsa and its Foundation in 2022, Maarten Wetselaar served as Integrated Gas, Renewables and Energy Solutions Director at Royal Dutch Shell, was a member of the Executive Committee and trustee of the Shell Foundation. He also oversaw 38 countries for Shell, including Australia, Canada, Japan, Qatar, Russia and Trinidad and Tobago.

Wetselaar holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Groningen and a postdoctoral degree in Controllers from VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands. After serving in the military as an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy, he joined Shell in 1995 and held various financial, commercial and general management positions in Shell's Upstream, Downstream and Trading businesses in Europe, Brazil, Ghana, the Middle East and Russia.

In 2009, Wetselaar became Executive Vice President of Finance for Upstream International. From 2013 to 2015, he was Executive Vice President of Integrated Gas, based in Singapore.