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President
Latin America - Governance
Governance
Executive Board
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Vice-President
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Vice-President
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Vice-President
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Vice-Chairman
M. Eduardo Pires has built a 40-year career in finance. He spent 14 years at JPMorgan before becoming a partner at Oppenheimer & Co. In 1999, he founded Rafter Investimentos, an investment advisory firm in which he remained actively involved until recently. He now serves as a senior advisor to Turim MFO, the largest independent multifamily office in Brazil, and sits on the advisory board of Baret Scholars, a leading global educational gap-year program.
M. Eduardo Pires holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado and a postgraduate degree in business administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas.
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He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from NOVA University of Lisbon, with his research focused on the continental shelf and the North Atlantic. He has taught as a visiting professor at universities such as NOVA University of Lisbon, the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom, California State University - Stanislaus and Fresno in the United States of America, and the Fulbright Commission in Portugal. His works can be found in esteemed libraries such as the Universities of Oxford and Aberdeen in the United Kingdom and the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He has been a practicing lawyer since 1984 and was appointed the Honorary Consul for the Serene Republic of San Marino in Lisbon in June 2018. He is fluent in Portuguese (his mother tongue), English, French, and Italian.
Development Committee
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Creator and president of Esfera Brasil, an organization created to promote thinking and dialogue
about Brazil and a think tank that brings together businessmen,
entrepreneurs and the productive class; partners of the 89 Investimentos group, an independent asset manager
operating in the areas of logistics, development and communication; partner of Alpha, BandNews FM, Nativa and 89 FM radio; Executive Chairman of
the CNN Group in Brazil.
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Forest engineer, consultant
and social entrepreneur in the fields of sustainability, forestry and climate; currently general coordinator of the MAPBIOMAS initiative, a network made up of
more than 70 organizations, including NGOs, universities and technological startups, which collects and publishes data to
monitor the use of land and water in Brazilian biomes and fight against deforestation and fires; coordinator of the system for estimating greenhouse gas emissions of the climate observatory; founder of the Forest and Agricultural Management and
Certification Institute (Imaflora); founder of the Amazon Fund; searcher at the Brazil-Lab of Princeton University.
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specialist in marketing from the Wharton School, in
Philadelphia, completed a postgraduate course in
fashion business at the Istituto Europeo di Design, until, at the beginning of 2017, she fully assumed the role of relationship director at JHSF, which operates in the
shopping centers, real estate development, hotels and gastronomy sectors. In the meantime, she also worked with giants such as Shopping
Cidade Jardim, in São
Paulo, and the French brand Louis Vuitton in Brazil.
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One of the most prestigious Brazilian anthropologists: specialized in anthropology in Paris under the direction
of Claude Lévi-Strauss; several post-doctorates at the University of Cambridge and Stanford and Chicago; recognized as an intellectual and an
important activist of the law of Aboriginal peoples of
Brazil.
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Professor Tasso Azevedo is one of the most respeted forest engineer in Brasil. He is consultant and social entrepreneur in the fields of sustainability, forestry and climate, currently general coordinator of the MAPBIOMAS initiative, a network made up of more than 70 organizations, including NGOs, universities and technological startups, which collects and publishes data to monitor the use of land and water in Brazilian biomes and fight against deforestation and fires. Prof. Azevedo was coordinator of the system for estimating greenhouse gas emissions of the climate observatory, founder of the Forest and Agricultural Management and Certification Institute (Imaflora), founder of the Amazon Fund and searcher at the Brazil-Lab of Princeton University among many other experiences.
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Rafael Improta Vieira is one of the most preeminent businessmen and philanthropists in Brazil, with outstanding performance in the areas of health, education, and environment, in addition to his 15 years of experience investing in Private equity, Venture Capital and acting as board member and advisory board member in several funds and companies.
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Federico
Perez is
an innovative social entrepreneur and
environmental advocate with a commitment to addressing global climate
challenges. He is the Founder and CEO of SELVITAS, a company that streamlines
nature-based solutions to promote social equity and combat deforestation in Latin America.