Jurandir Picanço Júnior is a Mechanical Engineer and Electrician. A member of the Ceará's Academy of Engineering, he works as energy consultant for FIEC (Ceará's Federation of Industries). He was President of COELCE (Ceará's Energy Company), has headed Ceará's Science and Technology Office, has been a member of CHESF's board, the President of ARCE (Ceará's Regulatory Agency), a lecturer on Electrical Engineering at UFC and the President of CSRenováveis/CE (Ceará's Sectorial Chamber on Renewable Energies). The Sindienergia-CE Award, which honours outstanding individuals in Ceará's energy industry, is called 'The Jurandir Picanço Trophy'. In his 59 years actively working in the energy industry, Jurandir has always had a connection with renewable energies, and was one of the people directly responsible for helping Ceará in its first initiatives to develop projects on wind and solar energy and, more recently, on green hydrogen. A 2022 survey by Grupo Mídia named him one of the '100 Most Influential People in Energy'.