Arnaud Tollis is the Development Manager for the Namibia Venus project, in charge of performing development studies from discovery to FID. Prior to this, he was Project Director in charge of development studies for deep offshore assets and has held a variety of positions with TotalEnergies since joining in 2008. 

Before Joining TotalEnergies, Arnaud was a Professor in Geophysics and Reservoir Engineering at the Institut Francais de Petrole (IFP) in Paris. He started his career in the Geoscience Research Centre for Ttotal, based in London in 2000 after graduating from IFP with a MSc in Petroleum Geoscience.