WITH a career spanning nearly four decades dedicated to the oil and gas industry, Cristina Pinho has accomplished a number of feats - most notably during her years at Brazil's Petrobras - but a love for the arts almost took the Rio de Janeiro-born engineer down a totally different path. It would have been a somewhat surprising turn for the young Pinho, who started out with a strong grounding in the more rational and systematic realm of science. "I have always loved exact sciences like mathematics and physics, so a career in engineering was a logical choice," she recalls.
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