Yara Brasil announces new president Marcelo Altieri

Yara, world leader in plant nutrition, announced the appointment of Marcelo Altieri as its new president in Brazil. 

The executive, who has been with Yara since 2014, was vice president of operations in Latin America. On August 1, Altieri began his mission to lead Yara's Brasil in its mission to create a positive food future for nature, through collaborating in the decarbonization of the global food chain and industry.

″I am very excited to lead the transformation that Yara is implementing in agriculture and in the other chains where it operates. Brazil is one of the company's major global operations and plays a key role in meeting our commitment to achieving climate neutrality by 2050. To overcome our future challenges, we will further share and utilize Yara's knowledge, and we will work under a collaborative model to improve crop and soil health, decarbonize production, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, making agriculture increasingly productive, sustainable and resilient,″ Altieri said.

Altieri is a Uruguayan agronomist who graduated from Universidad de La Republica in Uruguay. He specialized in Marketing and Finance from Boston University in the United States, and Global Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. He also has an MBA in business management from EGADE Business School in Mexico. At Yara, he led the company in Colombia.