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Ronan Bescond was appointed Vice President Long-Term Marketing & Origination in January 2025. 

Previously, he was posted to Australia as TotalEnergies EP Australia Managing Director and Country Chair (2021-2025), to Mozambique as Vice President of Mozambique LNG and Country Chair (2019 - 2021), to Zimbabwe as Managing Director (2017 - 2019) and to TotalEnergies EP Asia Pacific as Deputy Vice President for Australia, Brunei and Malaysia (2014 - 2017).

After obtaining his Master of Science from the Chemical Engineering School of Montpellier, France and the National University of Singapore, he joined the chemical branch of the TotalEnergies company in 1999 in Philadelphia, USA. He returned to Paris Headquarters in 2001 to join the Liquefied Natural Gas department of TotalEnergies Gas, Renewable and Power branch. He was involved in several LNG projects including Angola LNG, Qatargas I & II, Nigeria LNG and Oman LNG. 

In 2005, he became Corporate Finance and Treasury Manager in the holding of TotalEnergies SE in Paris, in charge of structuring and financing Gas, Renewables and Power activities in emerging markets, then of Exploration and Production activities in Africa. In 2010, he joined the Exploration and Production African Business Unit as Deputy to Vice President for Algeria, Egypt, Libya and Mauritania. He moved to Tripoli, Libya in 2011, as Business and Development Manager, and left Libya in July 2014.