BIO

Ronan Bescond was appointed Total’s Mozambique Vice President & Country Manager in 2019. Previously, he was assigned to Total Zimbabwe in 2017 as managing director of Total E&P Asia Pacific and since 2014 as vice president country delegate for Australia, Brunei, and Malaysia. After obtaining his masters of science from the Chemical Engineering School of Montpellier, France, and the National University of Singapore, he joined the chemical branch of the Total group in Philadelphia. He returned to Paris at the end of 2001 to the LNG department of Total Gas & Power. In 2010, he joined the Exploration and Production African Business Unit as deputy to the vice president for Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Mauritania. He moved to Tripoli in 2011 as business and development manager and left Libya in 2014.