She spent nearly 14 years with BP in various commercial and business management roles. She was a group leader at BP and worked on several international assignments in Latin America, Middle East, South Asia and West Africa. She was the Vice President of BP New Ventures, where she led various natural gas and LNG development projects in India, Pakistan, Oman, Jordan and Brazil, to name a few, and she was President of BP Brasil during the opening of Brazil’s gas industry to private investors.
Prior to BP, Ieda was the CEO of the largest gas utility in Brazil, the Sao Paulo Gas Company, which she successfully restructured. She oversaw the introduction of natural gas in Sao Paulo, coordinated the conversion of the town gas system to natural gas and executed the supply agreement allowing for the importation of natural gas from Bolivia.