Organizational structure

Bachelor (UFPR, 1995) and Master degrees on Public Law (UFPR, 2001), Ph.D. on Law, State and Society (UFSC, 2010), having been Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas, with research on Consensual Dispute Resolution involving Public Entities, with emphasis on collective conflicts involving public policies. Her post-Doctoral research on Economic and Financial Law from USP (2016), focussed on the connection between the Financial System and Sustainable Development, having been a Visiting Researcher at Università Luigi Bocconi (Milan, 2015). Luciane performed several activities in a legal career that lasted two decades, including the structuring of the Brazilian Legal Department of an auto parts industry headquartered in the USA and operating in over 13 countries (Cooper Standard Automotive), working on tax, labour (individual and collective issues, including occupational health and safety), corporate, industrial property and environment issues, interacting with the national Board of Directors, the global Legal Department and lawfirms based in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte (1998-2000); private practice in her own lawfirm in the fields of environmental, labour, tax and civil Law, with emphasis on consumer issues in the banking sector (2001-2006); practice as Attorney at the Central Bank of Brazil, either in consultancy, litigation or administrative coordination, in matters involving administrative penalty proceedings and judicial collection of fines, public servants conflicts, economic plans, subsidiary responsibility in labour matters (outsourcing), banking and exchange regulation, socio-environmental responsibility of financial institutions (2007-2016). She was also seconded to the Conciliation Chamber of the Federal Attorney-General Office (2010-2011), where she worked in conflicts in environmental matters, involving indigenous communities, slave descendants communities, mining and other public policies. In the academic sphere, she taught from 2001 to 2007 in Law Schools in Paraná, as well as in several moments in LLM courses, having published four individual books and more than 40 articles in scientific journals and chapters of collective books (two of them edited by herself). Integrating the two spheres (academic and professional), she has trained (in person or online) over a thousand professionals from the legal area and the public sector in Brazil in consensual resolution of collective conflicts involving public policies, having been a speaker on this subject in dozens of events and, more recently, on the connection between the Financial System and Sustainable Development, the subject of her latest book “Financial System and Sustainable Development: regulation, self-regulation, good practices, proposals for improvement and of parameters for accountability in case of socio-environmental damage caused by financed activities” (Lumen Juris, 2018). She is the author of the chapter “Benchmarking of National ESG Banking Regulations: State of Art and Remaining Challenges”, which addresses ESG banking regulations globally, in the book “Sustainable Finances and the Law – Between Public and Private Solutions” (Springer, 2024).  She is also a member of the Association of Professors of Environmental Law in Brazil (APRODAB), the Institute Law for a Green Planet and the International Center for Comparative Environmental Law. In 2017, Luciane founded Sustainable Inclusive Solutions (SIS), an independent consultancy that was the seed of the SIS Association, founded by her in 2022, with a similar area of activity (to learn more about this period, see SIS History). Currently, besides leading Associação SIS, Luciane is a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Green Finance. Luciane is fluent in Portuguese (native), English (professional proficiency), Spanish and Italian (intermediate), and French (basic).

Saulo is a biologist with a Master’s degree in Ecology from the University of Brasilia. He has extensive experience in the third sector and in UN system organisations (FAO and UNEP) on the Latin American continent, managing projects financed by the Global Environment Fund (GEF). His professional career includes taking part in the development of the National Biodiversity Strategy at the Ministry of the Environment (MMA), during the first term of Minister Marina Silva and working as a Professor of Plant Ecology (Faculdade da Terra), as well as working on various fronts in the first years after the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) was founded. In addition to executive management, Saulo also supports SIS in engagement activities in Brasilia and with the third sector in general, as well as in communication and fundraising strategies.