Full list of speakers

Achim Steiner
UNDP Administrator

Achim Steiner became UNDP Administrator on 19 June 2017. The United Nations General Assembly confirmed his appointment following his nomination by Secretary-General António Guterres. In April 2021, the General Assembly confirmed his appointment to a second four-year term beginning in June 2021.

Mr. Steiner is also the Vice-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group, which unites 40 entities of the UN system that work to support sustainable development.

Achim Steiner has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the United States. He graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (MA) from Worcester College, Oxford University and holds an MA from the University of London/School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Adauto Modesto
Deputy Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services

Economist and Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, with experience in public administration and government. A member of the career of Federal Finance Auditor, he served as special advisor and deputy assistant chief in the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic (2011-13 and 2015-16) and as Deputy Executive Secretary in the Ministry of Planning (2016). He also served as Chief Economist at the Development Bank of Minas Gerais. Currently, he is the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services and a board member of the Banco do Nordeste.

Adriana Amado
Full Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Brasília (UnB)

Graduated in Economic Sciences from the University of Brasília, Master in Economics from UnB, and PhD in Economics from the University of London, University College London. Full Professor at the Department of Economics, UnB. Research areas include: Brazilian Economy, Monetary Economics, Post-Keynesian Theory, Political Economy, History of Economic Thought.

Ailton Krenak
Philosopher, writer, and activist for indigenous and environmental causes

Ailton Krenak is a philosopher, writer, and activist for indigenous and environmental causes. He was recently inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Letters, becoming the first representative of indigenous peoples to join this institution.

Alejandra Faúndez Meléndez
Regional Director for Latin America of the Inclusión y Equidad Consulting Firm

For more than 25 years she has been a consultant, teacher, lecturer, planner and evaluator of national public programs, agencies of the United Nations System and multilateral organizations commissioned by UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women, UNICEF, FIMI, ECMIA, IDB, PAHO /WHO, UNESCO, PBF, SEGIB, AECID, OAS, ECLAC, OXFAM and PLAN International on issues of public policies, governance, gender equality approach, statistics and indicators throughout the Latin American and Caribbean region.

She has written more than 60 publications including articles, books and documents or reports in the areas of his specialty and has edited conceptual and methodological documents for national and international institutions, as well as manuals and guides for the development of capacities of various public and private institutions. In her academic experience, she has been teaching coordinator at FLACSO Chile and a teacher at CREFAL, the CLEAR training program in Latin America, the United Nations Staff College and various Universities in the region.

She has developed numerous workshops, research, courses, methodological tools and experiences of collective reflection with civil society organizations, community organizations and with the indigenous women's movement of the Americas and the world. She is part of the Group of experts of the Gender Mainstreaming Network for Latin America and the Caribbean and at a global level she is a member of the “Gender and Evaluation” group, and of the EVALGENDER management group of the global EVALPARTNERS community.

She is also co-coordinator of the Evaluation, Gender and Human Rights Group of the Latin American Network for Systematization and Evaluation ReLAC. Since 2009 she has been Regional Director for Latin America of the Inclusión y Equidad Consulting Firm based in Santiago de Chile and Mexico City.

Aloizio Mercadante
President of BNDES

Aloizio is an economist who graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP). He holds a master's degree in Economic Sciences and a doctorate in Economic Theory, both from Unicamp. Mercadante is a retired professor of economics at Unicamp and is on leave from his teaching position at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).

He was a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT) and the Unified Workers' Central (CUT). Mercadante served as a federal deputy for PT for two terms (1991-1995 and 1999-2003) and was the vice-presidential candidate on Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's ticket in 1994. He was the most voted senator in history, receiving 10.5 million votes for the term from 2003 to 2011.

During President Dilma Rousseff's administration, he served as Minister of Education, Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, and Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Republic. Mercadante also presided over the Perseu Abramo Foundation, the academic and public policy arm of PT. Throughout his career, he has been involved in coordinating nine presidential campaigns and coordinated the government program for President Lula's victorious campaign in 2022.

Amir Lebdioui
Associate Professor of Development Political Economy at the University of Oxford

Amir Lebdioui is an Associate Professor of Development Political Economy at the University of Oxford. He is also the new Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD) at the university. His research has focused on industrial policy, green economic transformation, and biodiversity-based innovation models. His book "Survival of the Greenest: Economic Transformation in a Climate-conscious World" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. Amir also regularly advises governments and international institutions on green industrial policy strategies.

André Roncaglia
Economist

André Roncaglia is an economist and professor at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), an associate researcher at IBRE-FGV, and a columnist for Folha de S. Paulo. He co-authored the book “Brasil, uma economia que não aprende” with Paulo Gala and co-edited "Bidenomics nos Trópicos" (2021) with former Minister of Finance Nelson Barbosa.

He holds a degree in Economic Sciences and a master's degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. He was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and earned his Ph.D. in Development Economics from the Faculty of Economics, Administration, and Accounting at USP. His areas of expertise include inflation and monetary policy, monetary economics, development macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, financial economics, and the Brazilian economy.

You can follow him on:

Twitter: @andreroncaglia

YouTube: andreroncaglia

Instagram: andre.roncaglia.

Anielle Franco
Minister of Racial Equality

Anielle Franco is the current Minister of Racial Equality of Brazil. She holds degrees in Journalism and English from the University of North Carolina and in English/Literature from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She earned her master's degrees in Journalism and English from Florida A&M University and in Ethnic-Racial Relations from CEFET/RJ. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Applied Linguistics at UFRJ. Anielle is the founder and former director of the Marielle Franco Institute. She is the author of the books "Cartas Para Marielle" (Letters to Marielle), the graphic novel "Marielle Franco - Raízes" (Marielle Franco - Roots), and "Minha irmã e eu" (My Sister and I).

Astha Kapoor
Co-founder of Aapti Institute

Astha Kapoor is the Co-founder of Aapti Institute, a Bangalore based research firm that works on the intersection of technology and society. She has 14 years of public policy and strategy consulting experience, with a focus on use of technology for welfare. Astha leads research and tests new methods of data sharing, data stewardship and governance. Her recent work is focused on participative governance of data, and its use for building collaborative AI, through collective governance methods such as cooperatives, especially for women. Astha also works on ideas of digital public infrastructure, especially on questions of bottom up governance. Astha is increasingly interested in formations of trust around technology adoption and use, and is leading a two year research study to understand women's digital trust in India. She’s a member of World Economic Forum Global Future Council on data equity (2023-24), visiting fellow at the Ostrom Workshop (Indiana University). She was also a member of the Think20 taskforce on digital public infrastructure during India's G20 presidency and is currently a co-chair for the T20 task force on platformisation of government services for the Brazilian G20 presidency. Astha is a two-time TedX speaker, and a Global Governance Futures Fellow 2018-19. Astha's writing has been published in the Mint, Hindu, Deccan Herald among others. Astha has a bachelors from St Stephens College, Delhi University, and a Masters from Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Netherlands.

Betânia Lemos
President of the National School of Public Administration (Enap)

Betânia Lemos is the president of the National School of Public Administration (Enap). She is also a federal public servant in the career of Federal Auditor of Finance and Control. She previously served as the director of distance education at the former School of Finance Administration (Esaf) and worked in the Professional Development Directorate at Enap, focusing on course development in 2019 when the two schools merged. Betânia has extensive experience in team management for results, institutional innovation, change implementation, and corporate educational management with a focus on distance learning. She has also worked for over 15 years in the economic evaluation of social projects and in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of public policies.

She holds a doctorate, a master's degree, and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and is a specialist in Innovation and Technologies in Education from Enap. Betânia is featured on Apolitical's 2024 list of 50 public servants who are working with governments to change the game and drive gender equality policies in their countries.

Bianca Santana
Journalist, Professor and Executive Director of Casa Sueli Carneiro

Bianca Santana is a journalist with a Ph.D. in Information Science and a master's in Education from the University of São Paulo. She is a columnist for Folha and a commentator for Jornal da Cultura. She teaches journalism at Faap and postgraduate courses in digital communication strategies at Fundação Getúlio Vargas. She is the Executive Director of Casa Sueli Carneiro. Bianca is the author of books such as "Quando me descobri negra" and "Arruda e guiné: resistência negra no Brasil contemporâneo."

Carlindo Rodrigues de Oliveira
Economist and Master in Political Science (UFMG); PhD in Social Sciences (UNICAMP)

Trade union advisor for 35 years, as a technician at the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (DIEESE), until 2017.

Currently, he is a consultant in Economics and Labor Relations at the company "Camargos Rodrigues - Consultoria em Economia e Relações Trabalhistas".

Author of the books "Greve e Negociação Coletiva: dimensões complementares da luta sindical" and "Greve e Negociação Coletiva no Brasil (1978-2018): grandes ciclos, configurações diversas", published in 2022 by Editora Dialética.

E-mail: carlindo.rodrigues@yahoo.com.br

Dr. Carlos Maria Correa
Executive Director of the South Centre

Dr. Carlos M. Correa is the Executive Director of the South Centre. Dr. Correa has worked with the Argentine government and at the University of Buenos Aires. He has been a member of international expert commissions convened by the World Health Organization. He has been a visiting professor in post-graduate courses of several universities, as well as consultant to various regional and international organizations. He is the author of several books and of numerous articles. He is a lawyer and economist with a PhD in Law from the University of Buenos Aires.

Carolina Almeida
Philosopher, internationalist, political scientist, with a master's degree and a PhD candidate in Latin American studies

Representative of Geledés in the United Nations periodic review mechanisms, on migration issues, and in the G20. She acts as co-facilitator of the women's rights working group in the C20; and participated in the last sessions of CEDAW, CSW, the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent, and the UN Human Rights Council. Her work focuses on the economic empowerment of black women as a means to achieve social, racial, and gender justice.

Cilair Abreu
Secretary of Shared Services at the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services

Cilair Abreu is the Secretary of Shared Services at the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services. He holds a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in Administration from the University of Brasília (UnB) and a Specialization in Business Management from the Fundação Dom Cabral. He graduated in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and in Economics from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ).

Since 2000, he has been a Planning and Budget Analyst at the Ministry of Planning and Budget. He has held various positions in the Federal Government, including Deputy Secretary of Federal Budget at the Federal Budget Secretariat and Undersecretary of Planning, Budget, and Administration at the Ministry of Agrarian Development, among other roles.

In 2018, he published the book 'Public Budget - An Instrument for Formulating Public Infrastructure Policies,' and he participated in the Emerging Leaders Program at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2017.

Clara E. Mattei
Professora no Departamento de Economia da The New School for Social Research

Clara E. Mattei é Professora no Departamento de Economia da The New School for Social Research. Em janeiro de 2025, ela será a Diretora do novo CHE (Centro de Economia Heterodoxa), na Universidade de Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sua pesquisa contribui para a história do capitalismo, explorando a relação crítica entre ideias econômicas e a formulação de políticas tecnocráticas. Recentemente, publicou seu primeiro livro, “A Ordem do Capital: Como Economistas Inventaram a Austeridade e Abriram Caminho para o Fascismo” (University of Chicago Press 2022). O livro foi elogiado pelo Financial Times como um dos dez melhores livros de economia de 2022 e agora está sendo traduzido para mais de 12 idiomas. No Brasil, foi publicado pela Boitempo com o título “A Ordem Do Capital: Como Economistas Inventaram a Austeridade e Abriram Caminho Para o Fascismo”.

Conrado Ramos
General Secretary, Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo (CLAD)

PhD in Political Sciences at the J.W.Goethe Universität (Ffm am Main). Is full Professor in Government and Public Administration in the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Former Director of the National Office of the Civil Service in Uruguay. He was Senator and Vice-President candidate in Uruguay. He has published extensively about public administration reforms in Latin America, with focus on civil service systems, models of public management and the politics of patronage.

Among his latest publications are: Panizza, F., Peters, B. G., & Ramos Larraburu, C. (Eds.). (2023). The politics of patronage appointments in Latin American central administrations. University of Pittsburgh Press; Peters, B. G., Tercedor, C. A., & Ramos, C. (Eds.). (2021). The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America. Emerald Publishing Limited; Panizza, F., Peters, B. G., & Ramos Larraburu, C. R. (2019). Roles, trust and skills: A typology of patronage appointments. Public Administration, 97(1), 147-161; Ramos, C., & Milanesi, A. (2018). The neo-Weberian state and the neodevelopmentalist strategies in Latin America: the case of Uruguay. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 0020852318763525; Panizza, F., Ramos Larraburu, C. & Scherlis, G. (2018). Unpacking Patronage: The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Argentina's and Uruguay's Central Public Administrations. Journal of Politics in Latin America, 10(3), 59-98.

Cristiane Gomes Julião
Pankararu indigenous woman

Cristiane Gomes Julião, a Pankararu indigenous woman. I graduated in Geography from the Higher Education Center of the São Francisco Valley (CESVASF), and I hold a master's degree and am currently a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the National Museum/UFRJ. I am a member of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo (APOINME), the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), and the Indigenous Women's Voice Collective. Alongside Glicéria Tupinambá, I co-directed the documentary " Voz das Mulheres Indígenas " (2015). I am also an activist for human rights, environmental rights, and women's rights.

Cristina Kiomi Mori
Executive Secretary at the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services

She served as Deputy Secretary of Management for the city of São Paulo/SP from 2015 to 2016 and as Program Director at the federal government level from 2005 to 2015, focusing on areas of planning and management, as well as public policies for digital inclusion. From 2017 to 2022, she worked as a consultant in institutional development, supporting governments and coalitions in planning and governance initiatives. During the same period, she also taught in postgraduate and executive education programs in Public Management.

Daniela Gorayeb
Chefa da Assessoria Especial de Participação Social e de Diversidade no Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos

Daniela Gorayeb é graduada, mestra e doutora em Teoria Econômica no Instituto de Economia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Atuou como professora e pesquisadora em Economia nas Faculdades de Campinas (FACAMP) e como pesquisadora no Núcleo de Pesquisa em Economia e Gênero na FACAMP (NPEGen-FACAMP) e no Núcleo de Economia Industrial e da Tecnologia (NEIT) da UNICAMP. Daniela possui mais de 20 anos de experiência na docência e em pesquisa, com particular especialização em análise setorial e nos estudos em economia do trabalho e economia e gênero. Foi também Economista-Sênior na Unidade de Desenvolvimento Humano do Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento no Brasil (PNUD). Daniela é participante da Rede Brasileira de Economistas Feministas (REBEF) e, atualmente, é Chefa da Assessoria Especial de Participação Social e de Diversidade no Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos.

Danilo Bertazzi
Chief of the Special Advisory for Federative Cooperation of the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services

Danilo Bertazzi holds a degree in International Relations from the University of São Paulo and a master's degree in Economic Development from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is from Public Policy and Government Management Specialist career, having worked on management and digital government issues for the Government of São Paulo, the Ministry of Communications, the São Paulo City Hall, the National Film Agency (ANCINE), and the Niterói City Hall. Currently, he serves as the Head of the Special Advisory Office for Federative Cooperation at the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services, with the mission of promoting and supporting the digital transformation of states and municipalities.

Denilson Bandeira Coêlho
Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Brasília

Denilson Bandeira Coêlho is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Brasília. He researches policy diffusion, political behavior, and bureaucratic accountability. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Government (2019-2020). His postdoctoral research focused on state policy innovation in highly decentralized federations. His recent research centers on a comparative study of the state's capacity to disseminate public policies to local governments in Brazil.

Denise Ferreira da Silva
Philosopher, Artist, and Professor, holding the Samuel Rudin Professor Chair in Humanities in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at New York University

Philosopher and artist Denise Ferreira da Silva holds the Samuel Rudin Professor Chair in Humanities in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at New York University. Her books include *Toward a Global Idea of Race* (Minnesota 2007), *Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime* (Johns Hopkins, 2013), and *Unpayable Debt* (Sternberg 2022). She has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris 8, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, La Trobe University, among others. She has exhibited in international art spaces, including the Centre Pompidou, Whitechapel Gallery, MOMA and Guggenheim, MACBA, Munch Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, and the São Paulo, Berlin, and Venice Biennials.

Dilma Rousseff
President of the New Development Bank

Dilma Rousseff is the President of the New Development Bank and was the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two consecutive terms. Previously, in the first two governments of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, she was the Minister of Mines and Energy and Minister Chief of Staff, a position she held until 2010. As the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff focused her agenda on ensuring the country’s economic stability and job creation. In addition, during her government, the fight against poverty was prioritized, and social programs that started under President Lula da Silva’s terms were expanded and internationally recognized. As a result of one of the most extensive processes of poverty reduction in the country’s history, Brazil was removed from the UN’s Hunger Map.

Elisa Leonel
Secretary of coordination and governance of state-owned enterprises (SEST) at the Ministry of Management and Innovation

Elisa Leonel holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master's degree in Administration and Public Policy from the University of Brasília (UnB). She graduated with a degree in Public Administration from the School of Government at the João Pinheiro Foundation (FJP). As a career civil servant at the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), she worked in the institution's Consumer Relations department for 9 years. She served as a special advisor to the executive secretary of the Ministry of Communications, specializing in coordinating the implementation of the Access to Information Law, among other responsibilities. She was also involved in digital inclusion projects at the Presidency of the Republic, including the National Broadband Program. Currently, Elisa Vieira Leonel is the secretary of coordination and governance of state-owned enterprises (SEST) at the Ministry of Management and Innovation.

Gisele Sakamoto
General Coordinator of Green Economy and Impact at the Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services

Gisele is a career civil servant at the Labor Audit since 2007, coordinated the fight against slave labor in Mato Grosso and is currently General Coordinator of Green Economy and Impact at the Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services.

Graduated in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP), she has a master's and doctorate in Sociology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), as well as a specialist in Solidarity Economy. She is a member of the Information Institute for Innovation, the Decent Work Institute and a researcher at the Contemporary Slave Labor Research Group (GPTEC) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and a poet, author of several books.

Emanuele Sapienza
Global Lead (Open and Inclusive Public Sphere), UNDP

Emanuele Sapienza is UNDP's Global Lead for work on promoting an open and inclusive public sphere. In this capacity, he oversees policy development and programme support in the areas of citizen participation, access to quality information on matters of public interest, and inclusion in public life of historically marginalized population groups. Emanuele has over 20 years of experience as a development practitioner. He served at global level with UNDP's Governance and Poverty Teams, but also at country level (in Nepal and Sri Lanka) and as a regional advisor on different aspects of governance in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dr. Epsy Campbell Barr
President of the Permanent Forum on Afro-descendant people of the United Nations, President of the High-Level Commission on Mental Health and COVID-19 of PAHO,

She is President of the Permanent Forum on Afro-descendant people of the United Nations, President of the High-Level Commission on Mental Health and COVID-19 of PAHO, Member of the Jury of the Human Fraternity Award, Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica (2018-2022), the first Afro-descendant woman to occupy this high position in the Americas, Afro-Costa Rican leader, two-time Congresswoman and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship. She is the main proponent of the Global Coalition Against Systemic Racism and for Reparations. Honorary Doctor of Humanities of Humanities from Brenau University. She graduated as an economist and holds two master's degrees: one in International Development Cooperation and the other in Advanced Management and Policy Decision Techniques. Lecturer and international researcher on issues of Social Inclusion, Human Development and Welfare, Antiracism, Women, and Human Rights, among others, in different universities and seminars organized by intergovernmental and multilateral organizations, as well as public institutions, electoral institutes, political parties in America and the Caribbean, and nongovernmental organizations. She has been recognized by the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) as one of the most important women of African descent in the world, in addition to receiving the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from Justice in recognition of her work for the rights of people of African descent, received recognition from Forbes Magazine as one of the most powerful women in Latin America and the Caribbean (2019), by Estrategia y Negocios Magazine as one of the most influential women in the region (2019), by the African Renaissance and Diaspora Network as one of the most relevant Afro-descendant leaders in the region (2019). She was the coordinator of the Network of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women; coordinator of the Women's Forum for Central American Integration; Member and Founder of the Center of Afro-Costa Rican Women, Founder of the Black Parliament of the Americas and Founder of the Women's Forum for Central American Integration. She was a proponent in Costa Rica of the approval of the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance (2016); a member of the Committee that prepared the "Regional Human Development Report (IRDH) for Latin America and the Caribbean: Multidimensional Progress" (2016) coordinated by UNDP; director of more than fifteen international research and author of 20 publications on social inclusion.

Esther Dweck
Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services

Esther Dweck is Professor at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IE-UFRJ). She holds a PhD in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2006), with a doctoral stay at the Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM) at Scuola Sant'Anna, in Pisa, Italy. She coordinates the Public Sector Economics Research Group at IE-UFRJ and develops research mainly on the following topics: fiscal regime and State participation, demand-led growth, micro-macro integration, input-output analysis and simulation models. Between June 2011 and March 2016, she served as the Chief Economic Advisor (2011-2014) and as the Federal Budget Secretary (2015-2016) at the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management.

Felipe Melo Rivara
National Director of the Civil Service and President of the High Public Management Council in Chile

He holds a degree in Industrial Civil Engineering from the University of Chile and a Master’s in Public Management and Governance from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

With 18 years of professional experience in the public sector and civil society, Felipe has held various significant roles. He served as the Regional Ministerial Secretary of Education for the Metropolitan Region from 2014 to 2016. Additionally, he was the director of the Higher Education Access Program (PACE) at the Ministry of Education, director of the Equity and Inclusion Office at the University of Chile, director of the Country Service Program, and has been an advisor and consultant in local development.

Fernando Filgueiras
Associate professor at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG)

Fernando Filgueiras is an associate professor at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). Professor in the Professional Doctorate in Public Policy at the National School of Public Administration (ENAP). Researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology - Quality of Government (QualiGov) and at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Among his works are "Algorithmic Institutionalism - The Changing Rules of Social + Political Life", co-authored with Virgílio Almeida and Ricardo F. Mendonça (Oxford University Press, 2023), and "Governance for the Digital World - Neither More State Nor More Market", co-authored with Virgílio Almeida (Palgrave-McMillan, 2021). Throughout his career, he has served as Director of Research and Graduate Studies at the National School of Public Administration. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University Institute of Research of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ).

Fiona Tregenna
Professor of Economics at the University of Johannesburg

Professor Fiona Tregenna holds the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair in Industrial Development, heading this centre of research, capacity-building, and public and policy engagement. She is also a Professor of Economics at the University of Johannesburg. Her research focuses on issues of structural change, industrialisation and deindustrialisation, and innovation and technological upgrading. She has published widely in leading journals, received awards and grants for her research, led large research projects, co-edited several books, and serves on the editorial boards of various international journals and book series. Fiona has been involved in economic policy issues for more than 25 years, and serves on many panels and councils. These include the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Advisory Council, through which she advises on trade and industrial development across Africa, and advising South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on economic policy as a member of his Presidential Economic Advisory Council. She sits on a number of boards, including UNU-WIDER, the Human Sciences Research Council, and the Institute for Economic Justice. She also sits part-time on the Competition Tribunal (South Africa). Fiona has advised international organisations such as UNIDO, UNCTAD, the United Nations University and the ILO, and has contributed to a number of flagship United Nations reports. She is an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), and sits on several ASSAf bodies. She is also affiliated with SOAS University of London, as a Professorial Research Associate as well as a Fellow of the Development Leadership Dialogue. Fiona holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Gabriel Aidar
Superintendent of Planning and Economic Research

Gabriel Aidar holds a PhD in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Gabriel is a former visiting scholar at Columbia University and served as the Deputy Chief of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Brazilian Presidency. At BNDES, the National Bank for Economic Development, he is currently the Superintendent of Planning and Economic Research.

Gecilda Silva
Deputy Director-General of the National Archives

Gecilda holds a Master's in Public Administration (FGV-RJ) and a Master's in Accounting Sciences (UFRJ). She specializes in External Control, with a focus on Government Audit (FGV-RJ). She earned her undergraduate degrees in Economics (UERJ) and Accounting (UFRJ). Currently, she serves as the Deputy Director-General of the National Archives, under the Secretary of the Ministry of Management and Public Service Innovation. She has been a public servant at the Court of Accounts of the State of Rio de Janeiro for over 30 years, working in audit, oversight, socioeconomic studies and research of municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, social control, and sustainability. Gecilda is also a lecturer in Accounting, Public Budgeting, Social and Governmental Controls, Public Management, and Entrepreneurship at various educational institutes and postgraduate programs in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Geraldine Joslyn Fraser-Moleketi
Chairman of the Tiger Brands Board and Group

Chancellor of the Nelson Mandela University, Chairman of the Thabo Mbeki Board of Trustees; Chair of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) a subsidiary body of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); Board member of Exxaro; Non Executive Board member of Standard bank Group; Currently Chairman of the Tiger Brands Board and Group.

Geraldine previously served as Special Envoy on Gender of the African Development Bank; former Director of Global Democratic Governance Practice of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Geraldine served in the Cabinet of South Africa as Minister for Welfare and Population Development and subsequently as Minister of Public Service and Administration in two subsequent administrations.

Whilst serving as Deputy Minister for Welfare and Population Development she was appointed Deputy Leader of the South African Delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, in 1995. Early achievements, hailing from the ranks of the Liberation Movement, include working as National Deputy Elections Coordinator of the African National Congress towards the first democratic elections in 1994. She was elected to South Africa’s first democratic parliament in April 1994 and served in three consecutive parliaments until her resignation in September 2008.

Geraldine serves on various boards across academia, government and development organizations on issues including youth, women empowerment, capacity development & education, governance and poverty eradication. She is a fellow of the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, and has completed a Leading Organisational Change course at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Geraldine holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration (Cum Laude) from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Geraldine received several awards including the OP Dwivedi Public Service Award from the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Public Administration, a Special Award for Outstanding Achievement from University of Pretoria’s School of Public Management and Administration. In addition, a D Phil Honoris Causa by Nelson Mandela University and later a Philosophea Honoris Causa by the North West University.

Giovanni Dosi
Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economics of the Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa

He serves as co-director of the 'Intellectual Property Rights' task force at Columbia University's Initiative for Policy Dialogue. Additionally, Professor Dosi is the Continental Europe editor of the journal *Industrial and Corporate Change*. He is listed in the ISI Highly Cited Researchers list, which denotes those who have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology, and he is a corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy's premier academy of sciences.

In 2016, he received the Wiley TIM Distinguished Scholar Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the American Academy of Management. In 2022, he was awarded the Penrose Award by EURAM (European Academy of Management) for his research in evolutionary economics.

A selection of his works has been published in two volumes: *Innovation, Organization and Economic Dynamics. Selected Essays* (2000) and *Economic Organization, Industrial Dynamics and Development: Selected Essays* (2012), both published by Edward Elgar.

Graciela Rodriguez
Sociologist. Ecofeminist

Coordinator of the EQÜIT Institute - Gender, Economy, and Global Citizenship.

Co-coordinator of the Gender and Trade Network. Latin America.

Coordinator of REBRIP - Brazilian Network for the Integration of Peoples since 2020.

Global Coordinator of the IGTN International Gender and Trade Network from 2006 to 2010.

Member of the National Commission for the organization of the People's Summit against the G20 in Brazil.

Participates in various alliances and networks of social movements and the feminist movement in Brazil and Latin America, focusing on macroeconomic issues related to globalization, trade and investment agreements, regional integration processes, BRICS and G20, climate negotiations, etc., and their gender impacts.

Works to strengthen the plurality of the national, Latin American, and global women's movement through training, production of articles, and dissemination materials in the areas of macroeconomics and feminist economics.

Reflects on the Care Economy. Criticizes neoliberalism and denounces the economic-financial webs of violence against women. Also reflects and acts in territories based on ecofeminism and the common goods of humanity.

Guido Bertucci
Executive Director of Governance Solutions International

Guido Bertucci is the Executive Director of “Governance Solutions International”, an organization which promotes the development and sharing of innovative experiences in governance. Previously he was in charge of the United Nations Programme on Public Administration and Development, which promotes sound public policy, good governance and efficient and competent public administration around the world.

He is an alumnus of the Global Agenda Councils of the World Economic Forum.

He has carried out research and training on leadership development, team building, mediation and negotiation.

He has been responsible for advocacy activities in governance and public administration at the global level; he has directed research, written, spoken, organized global meetings and provided technical assistance on emerging issues in public policy, governance and public administration. He has advised governments in formulating strategies for human resources and leadership development.

He was responsible for the creation and management of the United Nations Public Administration Network (UNPAN) with more than 30 international and regional partners.

Guido Bertucci holds a Laurea in Political Science and a Post-graduate Diploma in Administrative Sciences from the Catholic University in Milan. He has also received a number of honorary doctoral degrees.

Ha Joon Chang
Member of the Department of Development Policy at the University of Cambridge

Ha Joon Chang is a South Korean institutional economist specializing in development economics. He is currently a Distinguished Research Professor, Co-Director of DLD (Development Leadership Dialogue), and Co-Director of CSST (Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation) at SOAS University of London. Chang has authored several widely discussed policy books, the most notable being "Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective" (2002), which discusses developed countries attempting to "kick away the ladder" they climbed to the top by preventing developing countries from adopting the policies and institutions they themselves used, and the pressure the developed world places on these countries with practices they did not follow in the past. His writings have been translated into 45 languages in 46 countries. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, as well as Oxfam and various United Nations agencies. He is a member of CDP (Committee for Development Policy), the highest UN advisory body on development issues.

Helen Margetts
Professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford

Helen Margetts OBE FBA is Professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford, where she was also Director of the Oxford Internet Institute from 2011 to 2018. She is Director for Public Policy at The Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. She researches and writes about the relationship between technology, politics, government and public policy. She is the author of 100s of books, articles and policy reports including Digital Era Governance (OUP, 2006 and forthcoming, 2025) and Political Turbulence (Princeton, 2016).

Helena Maria Martins Lastres
Associate researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Economist, Ph.D., England, and post-doctorate, France. She is an associate researcher at the Institute of Economics at UFRJ, where she coordinates RedeSist (www.redesist.ie.ufrj.br) and is a founding associate of Cicef (www.centrocelsofurtado.org.br).

She has extensive experience and publications in policies for productive and innovative development, with over 20 years of work at the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation. She held positions at INT/MCT (1984/86), IBICT/MCT (1993/2007), and in the advisory office of the President of BNDES, where she coordinated the Committee on Local Productive Arrangements, Territorial and Regional Development, Innovation, and Environment (2007/16).

Currently, she is the executive coordinator of the research project "Digital Political Economy: concepts, challenges, and policies in selected countries and in Brazil" (RedeSist/Cicef) and collaborates with other efforts to create the cooperation agenda of the "Global South," focusing on sovereign and sustainable territorial development and just transition.

Helena Tenorio Veiga de Almeida
Director of People, IT, and Operations BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank)

Graduated in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and holds a Master's degree in Economics from the same institution. She also has an MBA from Coppead and a postgraduate degree in Digital Transformation from PUC-RJ. She has been a career employee at BNDES since 1998, having recently served as head of the Operations and Microcredit department and superintendent of the Communication and Institutional Relations Area at BNDES. She was vice-president of the New Club of Paris, a think-tank on knowledge economy. As of January 2023, she assumed the position of Director of People, IT, and Operations at BNDES.

Isabela Weber
Professora associada de economia na University of Massachusetts Amherst

É professora associada de economia na University of Massachusetts Amherst e associada em pesquisa no Fairbank Center, Harvard University. Seu próximo livro, ESSENTIAL: Inflation, Profits and Survival in an Age of Emergencies, será publicado em 2026 pela Penguin Allen Lane no Reino Unido e pela University of Chicago Press nos EUA, e será traduzido para sete idiomas.

Por seu trabalho de política pública, ela foi perfilada no New Yorker , reconhecida como uma das TIME100 Next, Bloomberg's 50 Ones to Watch , Germany's 100 women of 2022 e Capital 40 under 40 e recebeu o Prêmio Kurt Rothschild e o Prêmio Hans-Matthöfer de 2024 . Por seu trabalho sobre as reformas de mercado da China, ela ganhou o prêmio Ground-breaking Subject Matter Accolade da International Convention of Asia Scholars e o Warren Samuels Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Isabella é uma Open Society Foundations Ideas Fellow.

Seus escritos foram publicados no Washington Post, no Guardian, no Project Syndicate e no Süddeutsche Zeitung. Ela faz parte do conselho editorial do Journal of Keynesian Economics, do Review of Political Economy e do conselho consultivo do Environment and Planning A e é membro do Comitê de Programa do Congresso Mundial da International Economics Association. Isabella é Ph.D. em Economia pela New School for Social Research, Nova York, e Ph.D. em Estudos de Desenvolvimento pela University of Cambridge, e foi pesquisadora visitante na Tsinghua University. Nascida na Alemanha, ela estudou na Free University of Berlin e na Peking University para seu BA.

Jairo Marques
Jornalist

Jairo Marques, 49, is the editor of Public Life and a diversity columnist at Folha de S.Paulo, where he has worked since 1999. He holds a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul and a postgraduate degree in Social Journalism from PUC-SP. Jairo writes about citizenship, human rights, inclusion, mobility, and aspects of life for people with disabilities. He studied public policies at the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo in Cartagena, Colombia, and has taught at the Methodist University of São Paulo.

Jairo is the author of "Malacabado - a história de um jornalista sobre rodas" and "Crônicas para um Mundo mais Diverso." He also collaborates as a scriptwriter for inclusive stories with Mauricio de Sousa. Born in Três Lagoas (MS), Jairo has been a wheelchair user since childhood.

James Galbraith
Professor de Governo na Universidade do Texas em Austin

Ocupa a Cátedra Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. em Relações Governamentais/Empresariais na Escola de Assuntos Públicos Lyndon B. Johnson e é professor de Governo na Universidade do Texas em Austin.

Galbraith é formado pela Universidade Harvard (BA) e em economia pela Universidade Yale (MA, M.Phil, PhD). Foi Diretor Executivo do Comitê Econômico Conjunto do Congresso dos Estados Unidos no início dos anos 1980. Presidiu o conselho de Economistas pela Paz e Segurança de 1996 a 2016 e dirige o Projeto de Desigualdade da Universidade do Texas. É editor-chefe da Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Em 2010, foi eleito para a Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Em 2014, foi co-vencedor com Angus Deaton do Prêmio Leontief para Avanço das Fronteiras da Economia. Em 2020, recebeu o Prêmio Veblen-Commons da Association for Evolutionary Economics.

James N. Green
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History at Brown University and Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

James N. Green is the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History at Brown University and Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. He is the author of Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Chicago, 1999), We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States (Duke, 2010), and Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary (Duke, 2018), all three also published in Portuguese. Green is the co-author or co-editor of nine additional works about Brazil. He is the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil, and the President of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office.

Jan Kregel
Professor de financiamento do desenvolvimento na Universidade de Tecnologia de Tallinn

Economista pós-keynesiano. Professor de financiamento do desenvolvimento na Universidade de Tecnologia de Tallinn, professor adjunto na New School for Social Research e editor do Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. Anteriormente, dirigiu a Seção de Análise de Políticas e Desenvolvimento do Escritório de Financiamento para o Desenvolvimento das Nações Unidas e foi vice-secretário do Comitê de Especialistas da ONU em Cooperação Internacional em Questões Fiscais.

Em 2009, Kregel atuou como Relator da Comissão do Presidente da Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas para a Reforma do Sistema Financeiro Internacional.

Kregel contribuiu com mais de 250 artigos para volumes editados e revistas acadêmicas, incluindo Economic Journal, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Economie Appliquée e Giornale degli Economisti, além de publicar vários livros. Ele é membro vitalício da Royal Economic Society (Reino Unido) e membro eleito da Società Italiana degli Economisti e da Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei italiana. Em 2010, ele recebeu o prestigiado Prêmio Veblen-Commons da Association for Evolutionary Economics por suas muitas contribuições ao campo da economia.

Jeffrey Sachs
Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University

Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, best-selling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. Sachs is widely recognized for his bold and effective strategies to tackle complex challenges, including escaping extreme poverty, the global fight against man-made climate change, international debt and financial crises, national economic reforms, and the control of pandemic and epidemic diseases.

Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the position of University Professor, the highest academic rank at the university. Sachs was the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He is the Chairman of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Energy Transition Council for Engineers, a scholar of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences of the Vatican, a Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Distinguished Professor at Sunway University, and an Advocate for the UN Secretary-General's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), António Guterres. From 2001 to 2018, Sachs served as a Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18).

Sachs is the winner of the 2022 Tang Prize for Sustainable Development and was a co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global award for environmental leadership. He has been named twice among the 100 most influential global leaders by Time magazine. Sachs has received 42 honorary doctorates, and his recent awards include the 2022 Tang Prize for Sustainable Development, the Legion of Honor by decree of the President of the Republic of France, and the Order of the Cross from the President of Estonia.

João Paulo Ribeiro Capobianco
Secretário Executivo do Ministério do Meio Ambiente e Mudança do Clima

Biólogo e ambientalista é especialista em Educação Ambiental (UnB) e doutor em Ciências (USP)

Fundou e dirigiu várias ONGs como a Associação em Defesa da Juréia, SOS Mata Atlântica, Rede de ONGs da Mata Atlântica, Fórum Brasileiro de ONGs e Movimentos Sociais, Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) e Instituto Democracia e Sustentabilidade (IDS).

Foi Secretário Nacional de Biodiversidade e Florestas e Secretário Executivo do Ministério do Meio Ambiente (2003-08), quando exerceu, entre outras, as funções de coordenador do Plano de Prevenção e Controle do Desmatamento na Amazônia, presidente do Conselho de Gestão do Patrimônio Genético, da Comissão Nacional da Biodiversidade e da Comissão Nacional de Florestas, vice-presidente do Conselho Nacional do Meio Ambiente e presidente do Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade - ICMBio.

Foi professor visitante da Universidade de Columbia (2008-09) onde integrou o CEES – Center for Environment, Economy, and Society, período em que também atuou como pesquisador associado ao Ipam – Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia.

Atualmente é Secretário Executivo do Ministério do Meio Ambiente

É autor de diversas publicações sobre questões ambientais. Em 2003, o livro Biodiversidade na Amazônia Brasileira (Estação Liberdade), por ele organizado, recebeu o prêmio Jabuti como melhor publicação em Ciências Naturais e da Saúde e Livro do Ano, ambos concedidos pela Câmara Brasileira do Livro.

Em novembro de 2021 lançou o livro “Amazônia - uma década de esperança” (Estação Liberdade).

José Antonio Ocampo
Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs and Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University

José Antonio Ocampo is Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs and Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He has been UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and in his country, Colombia, Minister of Finance on two occasions, Minister of Agriculture, Director of the National Planning and Member of the Board of Directors of the central bank. He is also a member and has been Chair of the Committee for Development Policy of ECOSOC and of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT). He has published extensively on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history.

José Celso
Special Advisor to the Office of Minister Esther Dweck at MGI

Secretary of People Management - José Celso holds a degree in Economics from FEA/USP (Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of São Paulo), with a master's degree in Economic Theory and a doctorate in Development, both from IE/Unicamp. Since 1997, he has been a Planning and Research Technician at IPEA, where he conducts applied research, government advisory services, and training for public servants on topics related to State, Institutions, Planning, and Democracy, as well as Labor and Social Protection in Brazil.

In addition to having held management and senior advisory positions in various Federal Public Administration bodies, he was the president of Afipea-Sindical (National Union of Ipea Servers) between 2019 and 2023. In 2022, he also participated in the transition team of the Lula government and helped draft the final transition report. In 2023, he assumed the position of Special Advisor to the Office of Minister Esther Dweck at MGI.

José Graziano da Silva
Diretor-Geral do Instituto Fome Zero e ex-Diretor-Geral da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e Agricultura (FAO)

Graduado em Agronomia pela ESALQ/USP e mestre em Economia e Sociologia Rural, ambos pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). É doutor em Economia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) e pós-doutor pela University of London e em Estudos Latino-Americanos e pela University of California - Santa Cruz, em Estudos Ambientais. Possui vários títulos de doutor “honoris causae” de diferentes universidades da América Latina, Europa, Asia e África.

José Graziano da Silva trabalha com os temas da segurança alimentar, desenvolvimento rural e questões agrícolas e agrarias. Foi Diretor-Geral da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e Agricultura (FAO) de 2012-2019 e com a implementação do Programa Fome Zero no Brasil quando foi Ministro Extraordinário da Segurança Alimentar e Combate à Fome no primeiro governo do ex-presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Antes de se aposentar como professor titular do Instituto de Economia da Unicamp, lecionou por mais de 30 anos e publicou 25 livros e mais de uma centena de artigos em periódicos nacionais e estrangeiros.

José Lopez Feijóo
Convidado pela Ministra da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos Ester Dweck a assumir o cargo de secretário de Relações de Trabalho

Feijóo foi vice-presidente da CUT (Central Única dos Trabalhadores, metalúrgico na Ford, onde coordenou a 1ª Comissão de Fábrica da montadora, em 1982.

Entre 1999 e 2002, foi secretário-geral do Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos do ABC. No ano seguinte, assumiu a presidência do sindicato, sucedendo o então presidente Luiz Marinho, hoje ministro do Trabalho. 

Foi eleito secretário-geral da CUT em 1990 e, depois, vice-presidente da Central em 2006. Ocupou o cargo de Conselheiro do Comitê Gestor do Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Cedes) e de assessor especial do gabinete da Presidência da República, ambos nas duas primeiras gestões do presidente Lula.

Feijóo tem vasta experiência em negociação sindical. Durante o governo Dilma, ele coordenou negociações com empresas da construção civil, sindicatos patronais do setor, centrais sindicais e federações e confederações de trabalhadores da construção. Atuou também, representando o governo, no acordo entre o sindicato dos trabalhadores aeroportuários, a Infraero e a Secretaria Nacional da Aviação Civil para preservação de direitos dos trabalhadores do setor no processo de concessão dos aeroportos. Também foi secretário nacional do Trabalho no governo Dilma.

Agora, José Lopes Feijóo assume a Secretaria de Relações do Trabalho e irá conduzir a Mesa Nacional de Negociação Permanente com os servidores públicos federais. A Mesa é um espaço de diálogo amplo com o funcionalismo público e foi reaberta pela ministra Esther Dweck, em fevereiro deste ano. Por meio da mesa, o governo negociou e firmou acordo com as entidades representativas dos servidores, ainda em março, o que viabilizou o aumento de R$ 200,00 no vale-alimentação e o reajuste salarial de 9% a todos os servidores públicos federais, a partir deste mês de maio.

José Luis Escrivá Belmonte
Spanish Minister for Digital Transformation and Civil Service

José Luis Escrivá Belmonte (1960) is the Spanish Minister for Digital Transformation and Civil Service. Previously, he was the Minister for Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration from January 2020 to November 2023. He was the first President of Spain’s Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) from 2014 to 2020 and also served as Chair of the EU Network of Independent Fiscal Institutions from 2015 to 2019.

Escrivá began his career at the Banco de España, where he held different responsibilities in the Research Department, and later in Europe, where he actively participated in the process of monetary integration, since 1993, as an adviser to the European Monetary Institute. With the advent of the Monetary Union, he was appointed Head of the Monetary Policy Division at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. From 2012 to 2014, he served as the Chief Representative for the Americas at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.

From 2004 to 2012, Escrivá worked at the BBVA banking group, first as its global Chief Economist and Director of the Research Department, and from 2010 as the Managing Director responsible for Global Public Finance.

He earned his degree in Economics from the Complutense University in Madrid, with honors, and completed post-graduate studies in economic analysis at the same university and in econometrics at the Banco de España. Throughout his career, Escrivá has published numerous articles and research papers, primarily focusing on financial and monetary issues.

Jurema Werneck
Diretora Executiva da Anistia Internacional Brasil

Jurema Werneck é médica, Doutora em Comunicação e Cultura pela Escola de Comunicação da UFRJ. Diretora Executiva da Anistia Internacional Brasil desde 2017. Cofundadora de Criola, organização de mulheres negras há 30 anos com sede no Rio de Janeiro, e da Articulação das Organizações de Mulheres Negras Brasileiras, sendo sua primeira Secretária Executiva. Ativista experiente nas áreas de direitos humanos, igualdade racial e de gênero e saúde da população negra e das mulheres.

Laura Carvalho
Director of Economic and Climate Prosperity at the Open Society Foundations and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo

Laura Carvalho is the global director of Economic and Climate Prosperity at the Open Society Foundations and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo (on leave). She co-founded and acted as Director of the Research Center on Macroeconomics of Inequality (Made) between 2020 and 2022. She holds a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research and is presently Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center of Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) and Fellow of the Research Network for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy in Berlin. Her research focuses on topics in macroeconomics and development economics, and particularly on the relationship between economic growth and income distribution. Besides publishing papers in scientific journals such as the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, the Review of Keynesian Economics, and Metroeconomica, Laura acted as a weekly columnist for the largest Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo between 2015 and 2019. She is also the author of the best-selling book “Valsa Brasileira: do boom ao caos econômico” on the rise and fall of the Brazilian economy, published in Brazil in 2018.

Lavinia Barros de Castro
Advisor to the Presidency of BNDES

Lavinia Barros de Castro is a member of the Strategic Affairs Committee at BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank), participates in the Global Research Network of Development Banks, and serves as an Advisor to the Presidency of BNDES. She has had a long career at the Bank, having worked in the areas of strategic planning, risk management, economic research, sustainable energy, and exports. Her main research areas include development finance, financial regulation, development banks, long-term scenarios, and the Brazilian economy. She has extensive teaching experience, being a Professor at IBMEC-RJ and a Visiting Professor at Coppead and UFRJ. As an author, co-author, and co-organizer of several books and articles, she has received numerous awards, including the Jabuti Prize. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences, with a Sandwich Program at the University of Berkeley, California.

Lena Peres
Docente na Universidade Municipal São Caetano do Sul

Mestre e doutora em medicina pela Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Foi assessora especial no Gabinete Pessoal da Presidência da República e do Ministro da Saúde. Foi Secretária Nacional de Promoção e Defesa de Direitos Humanos e ocupou cargos de diretoria de ações estratégicas e coordenação de saúde da mulher no Ministério da Saúde. Atualmente, é docente na Universidade Municipal São Caetano do Sul, consultora no Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, e na Inspirali/Ânima Educação é Coordenadora de Formação docente e das Travessias Humanitária na Amazônia e África. É membro do conselho da EBSERH e do Museu do Pontal – RJ.

Letícia Leobet
Assessora Internacional em Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra

Letícia Leobet, Cientista Social com linha de formação em Antropologia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Atua como Assessora Internacional em Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra, com foco nas agendas de justiça climática e desenvolvimento sustentável. Ativista do movimento negro.

Livia Sant´Anna
Public Prosecutor at the Public Ministry of Bahia (MP-BA)

Livia holds a Ph.D. in Legal and Political Sciences from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lisbon. She is the co-author of the book “Justice is a Black Woman" (Black Jurists Collection) and author of the book "Racial Quotas" (Plural Feminisms Collection). She was named one of the 100 most influential people of African descent in the world, in the Law & Justice edition.

Nominated by the MPBA to compete for a position as a Minister of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ).

Lorrayne Porciuncula
Diretora Executiva e Co-Fundadora da Datasphere Initiative

Lorrayne Porciuncula é a Diretora Executiva e Co-Fundadora da Datasphere Initiative, uma fundação internacional sem fins lucrativos com a missão de desbloquear responsavelmente o valor dos dados para todos. Ela é internacionalista e economista, com mais de uma década de experiência em políticas públicas sobre governança de dados e internet e regulação de infraestrutura de comunicações.

Publicações recentes com coautoria de Lorrayne incluem os relatórios: We Need to Talk About Data (2021), Datasphere Governance Atlas (2022) e Sandboxes for Data: creating spaces for agile frameworks across borders (2022).

Antes de liderar a Datasphere Initiative, ela trabalhou como Diretora na Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, que incubou a Datasphere Initiative (2020-2022), Conselheira Estratégica e Economista na Divisão de Política da Economia Digital da OCDE (2014-2020), e como Economista na Comissão de Banda Larga para o Desenvolvimento Digital da UIT (2012-14).

Ela atua no Council For A Fair Data Future do Aspen Digital (Aspen Institute), na Força-Tarefa do WEF para Fluxo Livre de Dados com Confiança e no conselho consultivo da Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI).

Lorrayne é pesquisadora afiliada no Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society da Universidade de Harvard. Ela possui um mestrado em Economia do Desenvolvimento pelo Instituto de Altos Estudos Internacionais e de Desenvolvimento (IHEID), na Suíça, um mestrado em Administração de Empresas pela Quantic School of Business and Technology, e um bacharelado em Relações Internacionais pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB).

Luciana Cingolani
Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Hertie School and an affiliate of the Centre for Digital Governance

Luciana Cingolani is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Hertie School and an affiliate of the Centre for Digital Governance. Her research interests include state capacity building, digital governance, inclusion in eServices and representative bureaucracies. She has supported the work of the French Development Agency, the Horizon2020 ‘Digiwhist’ project on public procurement transparency in Europe, the OECD-Sigma project and the United Nations’ Development Programme. She has worked for the Buenos Aires City government in the area of Participatory Strategic Planning. She first obtained a PhD from Maastricht University and UNU-Merit, and a Master of Public Policy at San Andrés University in Argentina, funded by the Argentine Research Council.

Luciana Costa
Director of Infrastructure, Energy Transition, and Climate Change at BNDES

Graduated in Economics from Unicamp and holds a Master's degree in Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and the University of Chicago. With over 23 years of experience in the banking sector, she has worked at BankBoston, Citibank, ABN AMRO, Unibanco, Standard Bank, Haitong, and was the president of Natixis (Groupe BPCE). Natixis (Groupe BPCE) is the second-largest French bank, recognized for its expertise in financing large projects, actively managing its portfolio in alignment with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, and guiding the allocation of its assets based on their climate impact.

Marcia Castro
Professora de Demografia, cátedra Andelot, chefe do Departamento de Saúde Global e População da Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health e diretora do Programa de Estudos do Brasil do David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Marcia Castro é professora de Demografia, cátedra Andelot, chefe do Departamento de Saúde Global e Demografia da Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health e diretora do Programa de Estudos do Brasil do David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). Sua pesquisa se concentra no desenvolvimento e uso de abordagens multidisciplinares para identificar os determinantes da transmissão de doenças infecciosas em diferentes cenários para informar políticas de controle. Castro tem mais de 20 anos de colaboração com pesquisadores brasileiros, Secretarias de Saúde e Ministério da Saúde, particularmente relacionadas a doenças infecciosas.

Fez contribuições importantes durante as recentes emergências de saúde pública (a epidemia do vírus Zika e a pandemia de COVD-19). Castro tem projetos sobre malária, COVID-19, arboviroses, mortalidade e desenvolvimento infantil/infantil, e mudanças climáticas na Amazônia brasileira. Atua em diversos conselhos consultivos no Brasil e nos EUA, é membra eleita da Academia Brasileira de Ciências e da Associação Americana para o Avanço da Ciência e é colunista da Folha de São Paulo. Possui Ph.D. em Demografia pela Universidade de Princeton.

Marcos Athias Neto
Secretário-Geral Adjunto da ONU, Administrador Assistente do PNUD e Diretor do Escritório de Apoio a Políticas e Programas

Ele possui mais de 25 anos de experiência em desenvolvimento. Foi Diretor do Centro de Finanças Sustentáveis do PNUD e Chefe do Secretariado do Grupo de Trabalho de Finanças Sustentáveis do G20, copresidindo o Conselho Executivo da "Business Call to Action" e da "Connecting Business Initiative". Antes de ingressar no PNUD, ocupou cargos gerenciais cobrindo a Ásia e a América Latina na CARE International.

É advogado, com mestrado em Direito pela School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Universidade de Londres.

Maria Luz Rodríguez Fernández
Professora de Direito do Trabalho na Universidade de Castilla-La Mancha (Espanha)

María Luz Rodríguez Fernández é professora de Direito do Trabalho na Universidade de Castilla-La Mancha (Espanha) e líder do Acordo de Colaboração entre Red.es (Ministério Espanhol da Transformação Digital e da Função Pública) e a Universidade de Castilla-La Mancha para a implementação dos direitos digitais incluídos na Carta Espanhola dos Direitos Digitais no ambiente laboral e empresarial, incluindo as administrações públicas.

Trabalhou como Especialista Sênior em Instituições do Mercado de Trabalho e produziu o relatório global “Trabalho Decente na Economia de Plataforma” para a Organização Internacional do Trabalho (Genebra). É considerada uma das principais especialistas em investigação sobre o impacto da tecnologia no trabalho, nas relações laborais e na proteção social, especialmente em relação aos direitos digitais e ao trabalho na economia das plataformas. Foi Vice-Ministra do Trabalho do Governo de Espanha e foi condecorada com a Distinta Cruz de Primeira Classe de San Raimundo de Peñafort (distinção por méritos jurídicos).

Mariana Mazzucato
Professora de Economia da Inovação e Valor Público na University College London

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose. She is winner of international prizes including the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021, Italy's highest civilian honour, the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Most recently, Pope Francis appointed her to the Pontifical Academy for Life for bringing ‘more humanity’ to the world.

As well as The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), she is the author of The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (2018), Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism (2021), and most recently The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies (2023). She advises policymakers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. Her roles have included for example Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council, and the Co-Chair of the Group of Experts to the G20 Task Force for the Global Mobilization against Climate Change.

Mauro Vieira
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil

Born in Niterói, RJ, Mauro Vieira graduated in Law from the Federal Fluminense University (1973) and Diplomacy from the Rio Branco Institute (1974), as well as an honorary doctorate in Letters from Georgetown University in Washington DC (2014).

He was the Ambassador of Brazil to Argentina (2004-2010); Ambassador of Brazil to the United States of America (2010-2015); Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations in New York (2016-2020) and Ambassador of Brazil to Croatia (2020-2022). He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil between 2015 and 2016.

He was appointed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to serve as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, starting January 1, 2023.

Mônica Sodré
Senior Fellow at CEBRI - Brazilian Center for International Relations

Mônica Sodré is a political scientist with a bachelor's and master's degree from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), a PhD in International Relations from the University of São Paulo (USP), and specialization from Columbia Global Centers, affiliated with Columbia University - New York. She is a professor of political science, an interviewer for Canal Um Brasil, and served as the executive director of the Political Action Network for Sustainability (RAPS) for the past 6 years. Currently, she is a Senior Fellow at CEBRI - Brazilian Center for International Relations.

Nelson Barbosa
Director of Planning and Institutional Relations at the BNDES

Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research. He was Minister of Finance and Planning in the Dilma Rousseff government. He also chaired the Board of Directors of Banco do Brasil and was a member of the Board of Directors of Vale and BNDES. Barbosa has also acted as advisor to the Bank's Presidency between 2005 and 2006. He is a teacher at the School of Public Policy and Government (EPPG) at FGV. As of January 2023, he took over as Director of Planning and Institutional Relations at the BNDES.

Nicholas Zimmerman
Founding partner at Dinámica Americas

Nicholas Zimmerman is a founding partner at Dinámica Americas, a strategic advisory firm. He is a global fellow at the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and also a senior advisor at WestExec Advisors. He pserved as Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and White House National Security Council Director for Brazil & Southern Cone Affairs under President Barack Obama.

Nuno Crato
Membro do Conselho Científico para a Educação Nacional do Governo francês (CSEN)

Nuno Crato, GCIH, GCIP, professor investigador de matemática e estatística, Cemapre, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, membro do Conselho Científico para a Educação Nacional do Governo francês (CSEN), cientista visitante no centro JRC, em Itália, lidera a Iniciativa Educação.

Foi presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática (2004-2010), presidente do Taguspark (2010-2011) e Ministro da Educação e Ciência (2011-2015). No fim do seu mandato, Portugal obteve em educação os seus melhores resultados internacionais de sempre.

Divulgador científico e interventor em educação, os seus livros estão publicados em várias línguas e países, incluindo o Reino Unido, a Itália, Espanha e Brasil.

Patricia Lima Sousa
Advogada da União e Chefe de Gabinete do Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos

É formada em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Ceará, com especialização em Gestão Pública, Direito Público e Direito Legislativo. Servidora pública desde 2005, iniciou a carreira como Analista do Ministério Público Federal. No mesmo ano, ingressou na Advocacia-Geral da União, como Advogada da União. Trabalhou na Secretaria-Geral de Contencioso, atuando em processos no âmbito do Supremo Tribunal Federal, na Consultoria Jurídica do então Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão, com a análise de atos normativos, na Procuradoria-Geral da União, como Chefe de Gabinete, e na Consultoria Jurídica do Ministério da Defesa, também com a análise de atos normativos. Atua como chefe de Gabinete do Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos desde janeiro de 2023.

Por Pharo
Diretor da Agência Norueguesa de Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento - Departamento de Clima e Meio Ambiente da Norad

Per Pharo é desde setembro de 2023 Diretor do Departamento de Clima e Meio Ambiente da Norad. Antes disso, ele passou dois anos como Diretor de Parcerias e Prosperidade Compartilhada da Norad, após 14 anos dirigindo a Iniciativa Internacional para o Clima e Florestas da Noruega (NICFI), primeiro como Diretor Adjunto e depois, a partir de 2011, como Diretor.

Em 2018-2019, ele tirou uma licença de um ano para trabalhar como co-autor principal do Relatório de Consulta Global da Food and Land Use Coalition, “Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use”, como co-autor principal do relatório.

Anteriormente, Pharo ocupou cargos de liderança no Ministério da Defesa norueguês e trabalhou na McKinsey & Company e no Instituto Norueguês de Estudos de Defesa. Ele tem dois filhos e gosta de correr, andar de bicicleta e esquiar cross country.

Priscila Cruz
Presidente e co-fundadora do Todos Pela Educação

Mestre em Administração Pública pela Harvard Kennedy School of Government, tendo recebido o Prêmio de aluna destaque 2014/2015. Graduada em administração de empresas pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP) e em Direito pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

Membro dos Conselhos: Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico Social e Sustentável da Presidência da República, da Rede Nacional de Ciência para Educação, da Fundação Itaú de Educação e Cultura, do Instituto Rodrigo Mendes, do Movimento LED - Luz na Educação, iniciativa da Globo e Fundação Roberto Marinho, do Centro de Inovação para a Educação da Universidade Columbia e Presidente do Conselho do Instituto Articule.

Recebeu o Prêmio Empreendedor Social 2022, do jornal Folha de S. Paulo e Fundação Schwab, pela atuação do Todos Pela Educação no período da pandemia.

Richard Kozul-Wright
Diretor da Divisão de Estratégias de Globalização e Desenvolvimento da UNCTAD

Ele possui um doutorado em Economia pela Universidade de Cambridge, Reino Unido, e tem uma carreira destacada nas Nações Unidas, tanto em Nova Iorque quanto em Genebra. Kozul-Wright é um autor prolífico, tendo publicado inúmeros trabalhos em revistas renomadas, como The Economic Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, The Journal of Development Studies e Oxford Review of Economic Policy.

Seu livro mais recente, "The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism" (coautor com Paul Rayment), examina as tendências e impactos do fundamentalismo de mercado. Além disso, ele editou vários volumes sobre temas cruciais, como multinacionais, economia global, insegurança e desenvolvimento econômico, bem como sobre como garantir a paz, proteção e desenvolvimento ambiental. Kozul-Wright é amplamente reconhecido por suas contribuições ao debate econômico global e por seu compromisso com um desenvolvimento mais inclusivo e sustentável.

Roberto Seara Machado Pojo Rego
Secretário de Gestão e Inovação

É formado em Ciência Política pela Universidade de Brasília. Servidor público desde 1992, iniciou a carreira no Governo do Distrito Federal, na área de transporte público. Ingressou no Governo Federal em 2004, na carreira de Especialista em Políticas Públicas e Gestão Governamental. Trabalhou no Ministério de Minas e Energia, na Secretaria de Relações Institucionais, no Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social e no Ministério de Desenvolvimento Social. Atua na Secretaria de Gestão e Inovação desde 2019, onde já coordenou diversos projetos, entre eles o Programa de Gestão e Desempenho.

Rodrigo Assumpção
Presidente da Dataprev

Com mais de 30 anos de atuação sobre o tema transformação digital e melhores práticas de inovações tecnológicas para gestão pública, o presidente Rodrigo Ortiz D' Avila Assumpção esteve à frente da Dataprev de 2008 a 2017, onde liderou uma profunda transformação na empresa, que resultou em um aumento de rentabilidade e eficiência.

Foi consultor especializado em gestão de TIC e modernização digital junto a organismos internacionais como Banco Mundial e a Associação Internacional de Seguridade Social (AISS).

Exerceu o cargo de secretário-adjunto de Logística e Tecnologia da Informação, no Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão e coordenou a área de Governo Eletrônico da Prefeitura de Santo André (SP). Atuou como educador no Instituto Cajamar, foi diretor do Instituto Florestan Fernandes e da ONG Sampa.Org, onde trabalhou com projetos de inclusão digital.

Bacharel em História, com mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Rodrigo Assumpção deixa o cargo de especialista em Sistemas de Informação de Gestão da Proteção Social na Organização Internacional do Trabalho (OIT), agência das Nações Unidas, para reassumir a presidência da Dataprev, que, vinculada ao Ministério da Gestão e Inovação em Serviços Públicos, segue com a missão de prover soluções digitais para o exercício da cidadania.

Rogério Mascarenhas
Secretário de Governo Digital do Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos

Rogério Mascarenhas é Especialista em Gestão de Negócios e Tecnologia da Informação, Governo Eletrônico e Ciência de Dados e Big Data. Tem 25 anos de experiência no setor público, tendo atuado no INSS, Dataprev e Secretaria da Receita Federal do Brasil. Atualmente é Secretário de Governo Digital do Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos. Profissional com ampla experiência na implantação de projetos complexos na área da tecnologia da informação, inovação tecnológica, planejamento estratégico, remodelagem organizacional, restruturação operacional, auditoria fiscal e governança corporativa.

Silvana Bahia
Co-Diretora Executiva no Olabi

Silvana Bahia é Co-Diretora Executiva no Olabi - organização dedicada a diversificar a cena de tecnologia e inovação. É colunista na Fast Company Brasil na editoria de tecnologia e inovação. Foi editora do livro "Pode um robô ser racista?" Primeiro livro da coleção Pensando Amanhãs do Museu do Amanhã.

Considerada uma das 100 pessoas inovadoras mais importantes do mundo pelo The Future Laboratory na Inglaterra. Em 2023 recebeu o Prêmio Destaques da Governança da Internet concedido pelo Comitê Gestor da Internet. Em 2021 recebeu o prêmio Protagonista Brasil que reconhece lideranças que se destacaram por sua atuação em projetos e ações de impacto social na área de tecnologia da informação em temas voltados à transformação digital e inclusiva do país.

Svetlana Klimenko
Líder Global para Finanças Sustentáveis e Especialista Líder em Finanças Climáticas para a Região da América Latina e Caribe, Banco Mundial

Svetlana tem mais de 20 anos de experiência profissional em desenvolvimento internacional e finanças sustentáveis. Ela fez contribuições significativas para as agendas globais de clima, natureza, finanças sustentáveis e mobilização de capital privado, incluindo através do engajamento com o Grupo de Trabalho de Finanças Sustentáveis do G20, equipes da COP, definidores de padrões globais, investidores, Nações Unidas, OCDE e outras organizações internacionais. Entre outras coisas, ela coordena o diálogo do Banco Mundial com a Aliança de Investidores Globais para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável da ONU e está trabalhando em soluções inovadoras de finanças sustentáveis em nível global, regional e nacional.

Tereza Helena Gabrielli Barreto Campello Director of Social and Environmental Affairs at BNDES

Graduated in Economics from the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU, holds a Ph.D. in Public Health from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - FIOCRUZ, and completed post-doctoral studies in the areas of poverty, sustainability, and food security at the University of Nottingham, England. She was a tenured professor of the Josué de Castro Chair of Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems at the Faculty of Public Health, University of São Paulo - USP. She served as Minister of State for Social Development and Fight Against Hunger from 2011 to 2016, having been responsible, among other public policies, for the formulation and coordination of the Brazil Without Poverty Plan, the Bolsa Família Program, and the Social Assistance Policy in Brazil. She was a Special Advisor to the Presidency of the Republic from 2003 to 2008. She also served as a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Public Health at USP, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Petrobras Biocombustível - PBIO, Secretary-General of the National Council for Food and Nutritional Security - CONSEA, Chairwoman of the Interministerial Chamber for Food and Nutritional Security - CAISAN, Member of the Economic and Social Development Council - CDES, Member of the Steering Committee of the Amazon Fund, and Chairwoman of the Fiscal Council of the Bank of the State of Rio Grande do Sul - BANRISUL.

Zarah Bruhn
Empreendedora social alemã multi-premiada e fundadora e CEO da empresa social socialbee

Ela foi nomeada como a primeira Comissária para Inovação Social no Ministério Federal de Educação e Pesquisa em abril de 2022. Seu objetivo é focar o financiamento de inovação do governo federal em inovações sociais e criar as pré-condições necessárias a essas inovações. Um primeiro sucesso visível é a estratégia conjunta do Governo Federal para fortalecer a inovação social e os empreendedores sociais, adotada em setembro de 2023.

Desde 2016, a socialbee tem apoiado empresas na contratação de refugiados e na qualificação deles para o mercado de trabalho formal. Dessa forma, a socialbee já ajudou centenas de pessoas a construir uma nova vida na Alemanha, Áustria e Suíça.

Rafael Almeida
Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard University and a Master's in Health Economics from Princeton University

Rafael Almeida holds a Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard University and a Master's in Health Economics from Princeton University. Over nearly 20 years of experience in Brazil and abroad, in both public and private management, he has served in roles such as Director of Environmental Epidemiological Surveillance in Brazil’s local CDC, Coordinator of the Health infrastructure for Brazil’s Federal Government, and Associate Director in Global Vaccine Implementation in the pharmaceutical industry.