Country Director of WRI in Brazil. Member of the Brazilian Climate, Agriculture and Forests Coallition, integrating business and CSO sector leadership. Member of different NGO Boards : WWF Brasil, FFLA - Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano, IDEC - Instituto de Defesa do Consumidor (Brazil).
Degree in Law from the University of Sao Paulo (1990); Masters in Int'l Legal Studies, American Univ. Washington College of Lawm(1992); MSc, Environmental Sciences, Univ. of São Paulo (1999); PhD in Public Admin. (2011), Fundação Getulio Vargas. From mid-1990s, lawyer and environmental scientist for several NGOs and Sao Paulo State Government. 2006-11, Professor, Mgmt of Sustainability, FGV School of Business Admin. Since 2008, has helped create the GHG Protocol Brazilian Program and engage corporate stakeholders to use the methodology in GHG measurement and accounting and low-carbon corporate plan development. 2009, Fellow, Science, Technology and Society Program, Harvard JFK School of Government. Since 2011, Senior Adviser, World Resources Institute, Brazil, engaged in helping establish and implement Brazil's National Restoration Plan. Member of the Brazilian Pact on Atlantic Rainforest Restoration. Helped create the Brazilian Network of NGOs and Social Movements in Climate Change (Observatorio do Clima).