FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School launches Oil and Gas Regulation Committee

Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Rio de Janeiro Law School has launched an Oil and Gas Regulation Committee. Created as part of the school’s Regulation in Numbers project, the committee aims to encourage regulatory improvements needed for the development of the energy sector, which is strategic both domestically and internationally.

By providing a neutral environment operating under governance rules, the committee will foster the production and sharing of high-quality knowledge about the oil and gas sector, seeking to contribute to continuous improvement in this regulated industry.

In collaboration with academics, government officials and the sector’s players, the committee will be a national hub for studying, debating and proposing improvements to regulatory aspects of the oil and gas sector. Made of specialists from the public and private sectors with expertise in different areas of knowledge, the committee will have an in-person working meeting every six months in FGV’s main office in Rio de Janeiro. The first meeting took place on September 6.

The committee’s purpose is to analyze and debate oil and gas sector regulation and propose improvements; produce individual and co-authored articles; issue technical statements and newsletters; host podcasts, webinars and seminars; analyze, discuss and propose public policies involving oil and gas regulation; and come up with interesting topics for master’s theses and doctoral dissertations within the scope of the FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School’s Regulatory Law Graduate Program.

Coordinated by lawyer Alexandre Ribeiro Chequer, the FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School’s Oil and Gas Regulation Committee brings together a wide variety of stakeholders in a neutral environment to engage in high-quality discussion of sector regulation, focusing on improving the regulatory framework, key to the development of this sector, which is so important to the domestic and international economy. 

“We want to bring together the best minds in the sector, mixing academia and the market. We will have a forum for coming up with proposals to improve the legal and regulatory mechanisms governing Brazil’s oil and gas sector,” explains Chequer.

Created in 2017, the Regulation in Numbers project promotes research on regulatory activities in Brazil. In addition to its Oil and Gas Regulation Committee, the school also has regulation committees for pensions and insurance, ports, airports and railroads. One of the project’s main goals is to encourage undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students at the FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School to engage in these committees’ activities.