Biography:
Prof. Cleveland M. Jones, DSc. holds a bachelor's degree in Physics and Economics (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 1974), a postgraduate degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering (UERJ – 2007), and a master's degree (2009 – analysis of basins and mobile belts) and a doctorate (2014 – MEOR – Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery) in Geology from UERJ. He is currently a researcher at INOG (National Institute of Oil and Gas - INCT/CNPq). He is an independent international consultant, providing services in Brazil and abroad to Public Prosecutors' Offices and multinational and oil companies. He is a member of the Geosciences Advisory Board of NXT Energy Solutions Inc., Canada. He has experience in the areas of Energy, Sanitation, Sustainable Development, and Environmental Auditing and Assessment. He was the founder and director of several environmental and biotechnology companies, and Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Environmental Management (FUNCEFET-RJ). His main areas of expertise include: oil and energy geopolitics, energy resource assessment (yet-to-find-oil), applied biotechnology (bioaugmentation, bioremediation and MEOR), socio-environmental diagnostics, effluent and solid waste treatment, and shrimp farming. He is a frequent speaker and author of several articles on energy resources, the environment and applied biotechnology. He is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish. He is a member of several professional associations in Brazil and abroad, and a member of Mensa Brasil. He is currently involved in assessing the potential for new discoveries in the Brazilian pre-salt layer and in studies on oil geopolitics.
