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) and a researcher at the University of Lisbon, in both cases on Green Finance. Luciane is fluent in Portuguese (native), English (professional proficiency), Spanish and Italian (intermediate), and French (basic).

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.