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The directors are appointed by the general meeting of shareholders for a period of up to three years; provided, however, the directors shall be elected on a staggered basis, with one-third of the directors being elected each year and provided further that such three year term may be exceeded by a period up to the annual general meeting held following the third anniversary of the appointment.
Directors may be removed with or without cause (ad nutum) by the general meeting of shareholders by a simple majority of votes cast at a general meeting of shareholders. The directors are eligible for re-election indefinitely.
The board of directors is empowered to manage Adecoagro S.A. and carry out their operations. The board of directors is vested with the broadest powers to manage the business of the Company and to authorize and/or perform all acts of disposal, management and administration falling within the purposes of Adecoagro S.A. and all powers not expressly reserved by Luxembourg law or by the Company´s articles of incorporation to the general meeting of shareholders is within the competence of the board of directors.

The following table sets forth information for our directors as of January 12th, 2011:

A description of the main tasks currently performed by each director as well as a description of each director’s employment history and education follows:

Abbas ("Eddy") Farouq Zuaiter. Mr. Zuaiter has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2003. Mr. Zuaiter is the Chief Operating Officer and member of the Management committee of Soros Fund Management LLC. Prior to his joining Soros Fund Management LLC in October 2002, Mr. Zuaiter was an Assurance and Business Advisory Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he was employed from April 1994 to September 2002, and Chief Financial Officer and Head of Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Trading at AFN Associates, Inc in David, California from September 1991 until March 1994. Mr. Zuaiter currently serves on the boards of Gavilon Holdings LLC, an Omaha, Nebraska based private company providing physical distribution, merchandising and trading across grains, feed ingredients, fertilizers and energy products. He is also currently a member of the board of directors of several charitable organizations or non-profit entities. Mr. Zuaiter received his BSBA in Accounting and Finance from Georgetown University in May 1989. Mr. Zuaiter is an American citizen.

Alan Leland Boyce. Mr. Boyce is a co-founder of Adecoagro and has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2002. Since 2005, Mr. Boyce has been the Chief Executive Officer of Absalon, a joint venture between Soros and the financial system of Denmark that assists in organizing a standardized mortgage-backed securities market in Mexico. Since 2007, he has also been a consultant for Soros, where he works to implement the Danish mortgage system in the United States. Since 1985, Mr. Boyce has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Boyce Land Co. Inc., a farmland management company that runs 10 farmland limited partnerships in the U.S. Mr. Boyce formerly served as the director of special situations at Soros from 1999 to 2007, where he managed an asset portfolio of the Quantum Fund and had principal operational responsibilities for the bulk of the fund’s investments in South America. Mr. Boyce also served as managing director in charge of fixed-income arbitrage at Bankers Trust from 1986 to 1999, as senior managing director for investment strategy at Countrywide Financial from 2007 to 2008, and worked at the U.S. Federal Reserve Board from 1982 to 1984. He graduated with a degree in Economics from Pomona College, and has a Masters in Business Administration from Stanford University. Mr. Boyce is an American citizen.

Guillaume van der Linden. Mr. van der Linden has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2009. Since 2007, Mr. van der Linden has been Head of Investment Management at PGGM Vermogensbeheer B.V., responsible for investments in emerging markets credit. From 1993 to 2007, Mr. van der Linden worked for ING Bank in various roles, including in risk management and derivatives trading. From 1988 to 1993, Mr. van der Linden was employed as a management consultant for KPMG and from 1985 to 1988 as a corporate finance analyst for Bank Mees & Hope. Mr. van der Linden graduated with Masters degrees in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Business Administration from the University of Rochester. Mr. van der Linden is a Dutch citizen.

Paulo Albert Weyland Vieira. Mr. Vieira has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2005. Since 1995, Mr. Vieira has been the founding partner of Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa e Guerreiro Advogados, a law firm in Brazil. Mr. Vieira’s family has been in the sugar and ethanol business for over 50 years, and Mr. Vieira served as a Director of UMA, a sugar and ethanol mill in Brazil, from 1990 to 2006, when UMA was acquired by the Group. From 1995 to 2006, Mr. Vieira served as a professor of banking and commercial law at the Faculdade de Direito da Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He graduated with a degree in law from the Faculdade de Direito da Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and has a Masters in Law from Cambridge University Law School. Mr. Vieira is a Brazilian citizen.

Mariano Bosch. Mr. Bosch is a co-founder of Adecoagro and has been the Chief Executive Officer for all operations in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay since inception and a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2011. From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Bosch served as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of BLS Agribusiness, an agricultural consulting, technical management and administration company. Mr. Bosch is also currently a member of the advisory board of Teays River Investments LLC, a farmland investment management firm in North America. Mr. Bosch has over 18 years of experience in agribusiness development and agricultural production. He actively participates in organizations focused on promoting the use of best practices in the sector, such as the Argentine Association of Regional Consortiums for Agricultural Experimentation (AACREA) and the Conservational Production Foundation (Producir Conservando). He graduated with a degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires. Mr. Bosch is an Argentine citizen.

Plínio Musetti. Mr. Musetti has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2011 and an observer since 2010. Mr. Musetti is a partner responsible for the private equity investments at Pragma Patrimonio, a Brazilian family office, since June 2010. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Musetti served as the Chief Executive Officer of Satipel Industrial S.A., leading the company’s initial public offering process and aiding its expansion plan and merger with Duratex S.A. From 1992 to 2002, Mr. Musetti served as the Chief Executive Officer of Elevadores Atlas, during which time he led the company’s operational restructuring, initial public offering process and the sale to the Schindler Group. From 2002 to 2008, Mr. Musetti served as a partner at JP Morgan Partners and Chief Executive Officer of Vitopel S.A. (JP Morgan Partners’ portfolio company), where he led its private equity investments in Latin America. Mr. Musetti has also served as a Director of Diagnósticos de America S.A. from 2002 to 2009. In addition, Mr. Musetti is currently serving as a Board member of Elevadores Atlas S.A., Portobello S.A. and RaiaDrogasil S.A. Mr. Musetti graduated with degrees in Civil Engineering and Business Administration from Mackenzie University and attended the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School in 1989. Mr. Musetti is a Brazilian citizen.

Mark Schachter. Mr. Schachter has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2009. Mr. Schachter has been a Managing Partner of Elm Park Capital Management since 2010. From 2004 to 2010, he was a Portfolio Manager with HBK Capital Management where he was responsible for the firm’s North American private credit activities. His responsibilities included corporate credit investments with a primary focus on middle-market lending and other special situation investment opportunities. From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Schachter worked for American Capital, a middle-market private equity and mezzanine firm and worked in the investment banking division of Credit Suisse Group from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Schachter received a degree in Business Administration from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario and completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. Mr. Schachter is a Canadian citizen and has permanent American residence.

Julio Moura Neto. Mr. Moura has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2011. Mr. Moura has been a board member and chairman of the strategy committee of Natura Cosméticos, a leading public Brazilian cosmetics since 2007. Mr Moura is also a board member of Cencosud S.A. and Brinox Metalúrgica S.A. since 2011. From 2006 to 2011 he was also a member of the Executive Committee of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva. From 1997 to 2007, he was Chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Nueva Group, a Swiss holding company with leading positions in planted, certified forests, agricultural products and building materials sectors. From 2002 to 2007, Mr. Moura served as chairman of the board of Terranova, a public Chilean forestry company and as chairman of the board of Masisa S.A., a public Chilean forestry and wooden boards company. He also served as chairman and CEO of Amanco, the leading Latin American plastic pipes producer, from 1997 to 2007; as a member of the executive board of Schindler, the Swiss Elevator Company from 1992 to 1997; as a member of the executive board and head of the Latin American Division of Sika, a Swiss specialty chemicals company, from 1984 to 1992; and as a member of the board of directors of Swiss companies Messerli AG and of Aliva AG from 1988 to 1992. From 1980 to 1983, Mr. Moura worked for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, participating and leading several assignments in Europe in strategy and supply chain management. Mr. Moura graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland and holds a Masters degree in Management from MIT Sloan School of Management. Mr. Moura is dual Brazilian and Swiss citizen.

Andrés Velasco Brañes. Mr. Velasco has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2011. Mr. Velasco was the Minister of Finance of Chile between March 2006 and March 2010, and was also the president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association from 2005 to 2007. Prior to entering the government sector, Mr. Velasco was Sumitomo-FASID Professor of Development and International Finance at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, an appointment he had held since 2000. From 1993 to 2000, he was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Economics and the director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. During 1988 to 1989, he was Assistant Professor at Columbia University. Currently Mr. Velasco serves as Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, and a Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He also performs consulting services on various economic matters rendering economic advice to an array of clients, including certain of our shareholders. Mr. Velasco holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral fellow in political economy at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received an B.A. in economics and philosophy and an M.A. in international relations from Yale University. Mr. Velasco is a Chilean citizen.