Vale S.A. elected Manuel Lino Silva de Sousa Oliveira (Ollie) and Marcelo Gasparino da Silva as independent members of the Nomination Committee. Mr. Oliveira is an independent member of Vale's Board of Directors (since May 2021), where he was also appointed to the positions of Independent Coordinator of the Audit Committee and independent member of the People, Compensation and Governance Committee, with election in May 2021 and position occupied as of August 2021. His main professional experiences in the last 5 years include: (i) Senior independent member of the Board of Directors of Antofagasta PLC, a publicly-held company in the field of natural resources and mining (between October 2011 and August 2021); (ii) Senior independent member of the Board of Directors of Polymetal International PLC, a publicly held company in the gold and silver mining sector (from April 2018 to March 2022); and (iii) independent member of the Board of Directors at Blackrock World Mining Investment Trust PLC, a British mining investment company (between February 2020 and July 2021).

He graduated in Accounting and Business Economics from the University of Natal-Durban, South Africa, in December 1973, where he also completed a specialization in Accounting Theory in December 1975. He also completed specializations in chartered accountant and chartered management accountant at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in South Africa (August 1978) and the Institute of Chartered Management Accounts in the UK (October 1988). Mr. Gasparino is an independent member of Vale's Board of Directors (since April 2020), where he also holds the positions of independent member of the Operational Excellence and Risk Committee (since May 2021) and Independent Coordinator of the Sustainability Committee (since May 2021), where he previously held the positions of member of the Sustainability Committee (between June 2020 and April 2021), independent alternate member of the Board of Directors (between May 2019 and April 2020) and alternate member of the Board of Directors (between May 2016 and April 2017).

He graduated in Law from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in January 1995, completed a postgraduate degree in Corporate Tax Administration from Fundação ESAG – ÚNICA in 2000. He has executive training in mergers and acquisitions at the London Business School, and at the CEO FGV (IBE/FGV/IDE). Professor at Fundação ENA – School of Government for the certification of administrators of state-owned companies and mixed capital companies.

He is a Certified Board Member by Experience (CCA+) by the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance – IBGC since 2010.