Rodrigo Jesus Navarro

Rodrigo Jesus Navarro is an attorney and a master’s candidate in International Law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and is currently pursuing a degree in accounting sciences at Estácio de Sá University (UNESA-RJ).

 

Navarro is an active member of AIEN, participating in the organization’s events held in Brazil, attending webinars and reading articles published by the institution. He is a native speaker of Portuguese, fluent in English and proficient in French.

 

During his master’s program, under the orientation of Professor Marilda Rosado, he has been working as a teaching assistant and co-authored an article titled “Global Environmental Governance and Climate Litigation: New Paradigms”, which was presented at the Brazilian National Council for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Law (CONPEDI).

 

He also represented UERJ’s Institutional Research Group on International Law and Energy at the Workshop on Research Strategies in Private International Law, held at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio).

 

As an undergraduate, Rodrigo organized and participated in a research group at the UFRJ Institutional Studies Laboratory (LETACI), where he presented articles at both national and international events.

 

Currently, his master’s research focuses on the legal aspects of energy transition and standard clauses in contracts involving renewable energy, seeking to provide greater legal certainty for foreign direct investment. Navarro’s other areas of interest involve international tax planning and global accounting standards.

Tony Cioni

Tony has a long history with the AIEN. From 2014 – 2017 he served as the Canada Chapter Regional Director, from 2018 – 2021 as the Board’s Secretary, then as the VP of External Affairs from 2021 to the present. Tony has also spoken at AIEN’s International Petroleum Summit in 2016 and 2017.

 

He has over two decades of international and intercultural experience. His experience encompasses matters in over 54 countries. Tony was the functional head of the international department at Husky Energy as a commercial negotiator. He was also head of the Transactions Department of a major European law firm in Kazakhstan and a seconded lawyer with Kuwait Foreign Exploration Company (KUFPEC).

 

Tony is a co-founder of the CITO Energy Group, a unique boutique that combines legal and non-legal services to companies undertaking energy and energy-adjacent development projects with an emphasis on Energy Transition ventures. In result, Tony and his firm work on projects spanning the Petroleum, CCS, Helium, Lithium and Hydrogen industries and they do that work both domestically in Canada and internationally.

 

Tony speaks French, Italian and Russian. His international and intercultural experience coupled with his upstream, exploration and oil service experience make his expertise unique among energy law lawyers in Canada.