Organizational structure

Graduated in Business Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (2015), with a Professional Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the same institution (in progress, with a full scholarship for academic performance). He completed a Master’s exchange programme at the University of Ghana Business School, on the subject of “Financing inclusive growth and development in frontier and developing countries” (2018). His international experience also includes an executive course at the Microfinance Association (England) – Advanced Programme on Microfinance and Social Performance Management (2018).

He has more than 10 years’ professional experience in large financial institutions and fintechs, where he acquired knowledge of the structure and operations of the capital markets, consumer credit and banking products in general, project implementation and stakeholder services. He recently worked on the preparatory research for the workshop on Climate Finance, organised by Instituto Clima e Sociedade and Climate Arc in São Paulo in March 2023.

Guilherme has a degree in Economics (UFRJ) and a Masters in Energy Planning (UFRJ) with an emphasis on environmental management. He has had academic experience at the University of Porto (Portugal) and the National Institute of Technology (India) and was a Professor at the Campos Department of Economic Sciences (UFF). He is currently studies manager at the Brazil Climate Centre (CBC) and is a member of SIS’s Sustainable Taxonomy technical team. He has experience analysing economic instruments for preserving biodiversity in the Amazon, such as REDD+ and Ecological ICMS, and developing public policies in the region, such as the Pará State Bioeconomy Plan. He also has experience with participatory processes for co-constructing public policies. He has participated in research related to the implementation of the Brazilian NDC, Climate Financing, Sustainable Development Practices, Water Resources Management, Environmental Impacts of Hydroelectric Projects, Economic Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation and Payment for Environmental Services.

Eco-lawyer and researcher on Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the New University of Lisbon. She holds a Master degree on Agro-Environmental Law from the Federal University of Mato Grosso (2017), a LLM on Civil Law and Civil Procedure from Faculdade Toledo de Presidente Prudente (2015) and a Law degree from Faculdade Toledo de Presidente Prudente (2012). Member of the Latin American Climate Lawyers Network – Initiative for Mobilising Action (LACLIMA) and collaborator of the Observa-MT Network. She was Special Advisor of the Secretariat of Environment of the State of Mato Grosso (2018/2019), Professor of Environmental Law at Faculdade Cândido Rondon Cuiabá (2016/2018) and Visiting Professor of Post-graduation course on Environmental Law by EduCare Sinop (2018). She is an environmental consultant in socio-environmental public policies acting in Mato Grosso and a founding member of SIS.

Oceanographer with a degree from the Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (2003), LLM degrees on Education, Environment and Development (2006) and Environmental Economics, with emphasis on Environmental Business (2013), holds also Master degree on Coastal and Oceanic Systems (2011) from Centro de Estudos do Mar, all from the Federal University of Paraná, as well as a PhD degree on Environmental Science and Technology from the Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (2021), with research on Valuation of Marine Ecosystem Services in Conservation Units. He has executed and managed several projects on strategic socio-environmental management, participatory planning, economic valuation of environmental impacts, fisheries, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder engagement and socio-environmental risk for the oil and gas, mining, energy, infrastructure, logistics and financial sectors. He works as a court expert, on nature conservation, consultancy and environmental entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Working Group of Entrepreneurship in Marine Sciences (GTE) of the Executive Committee for Human Resources Training in Marine Sciences (PPG-Mar), and of the Institute Meros do Brasil. He is currently a senior consultant at Ramboll, providing services in Brazil and Latin America. He is a founding member of SIS.

Gilberto Antonio Nascimento has a degree in Civil Engineering (UFRJ, 1981), LLMs in Hydrology (University of Padova/UNESCO, 1983) and in Public Health (FIOCRUZ, 1991), Master degree in Technical Cadastre /Geoprocessing (UFSC, 1986) and Ph.D. degree in Environmental Management  – Eng. Production and Systems (UFSC, 2004). His doctoral research included a year in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, Special Studies Program in Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS). He was also part of the Cities Alliance Program – South America WG, cooperation MIT – World Bank Foundation. He is the author of several technical papers in areas such as basic sanitation, urban infrastructure, environmental management and carbon credits. In the public sector, he has been working in Brazil for over 35 years in formulation, planning, coordination and management of projects in Municipalities, State and Federal Governments. He worked for Caixa Econômica Federal from 2003 to 2020, having worked in the sectors of urban and rural infrastructure, basic sanitation and environment, sustainable development and climate change. He integrated management and teams of project evaluation and physical-financial monitoring of works of federal programs, strategic planning and corporate environmental management. From 2015 to 2020, he worked in the formulation of actions, guidelines and internal rules, social and environmental risk assessment and compliance with the Equator Principles; social and environmental rating; indicators, clauses and contractual guarantees, safeguards of IFC – World Bank. He also developed the following activities: GT MDL Carbon Credits (Caixa – World Bank), manuals and standards for assessment and financing of enterprises in Solid Waste; Project Water Stress Test – Caixa / NCD / GIZ / CEBDS: Emerging Markets Program on Green Finance; Working Group FEBRABAN Climate Risks: Task Force on Financial Information related to Climate – TCFD. He was a trainer and lecturer at the Caixa Corporate University. In 2014-2015, he was seconded to the Ministry of Sports to act in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, with international entities, in the physical-financial monitoring of projects and works of environmental sanitation and certification in sustainability. In the private sector, in the 90s, he was partner of companies, consultant and coordinator of projects in engineering, sanitation and urban infrastructure in low-income areas, urban and road drainage, licensing and environmental impact studies. Internationally, he worked in institutions such as IDB, UNEP-FI and World Bank along with State and federal governments, in programs of urban infrastructure, sustainable development, climate risk and CDM – carbon credits, among others. In the Brazilian Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (ABES), he was part of the Board of Directors in several terms, with activities in technical, scientific and political-institutional sectors. Currently, he is Director of ABES-DF.  He is a founding member of SIS.