André Rocha

President, FIEG and Executive President, SIFAEG

10º Vice-President of FIEG since 2019;

President of the National Sugar-Energy Forum 2013/2021;

President of CELG 2004-2007

Clodoaldo Calegari

President, Associação dos Produtores de Soja e Milho de Goiás (APROSOJA-GO)

Daniel Furlan Amaral

Director of Economics and Regulatory Affairs, ABIOVE

Edwal Freitas Portilho

Executive President, Associação Pró-Desenvolvimento Industrial do Estado de Goiás (ADIAL)

Flávio França Jr.

Head of Grain Area, DATAGRO

Gabriel Bastos

Grain Market Analyst, DATAGRO

Glauber Silveira

Executive Director, Abramilho

Agronomist, journalist, rural producer in MT, with a specialization in cattle confinement and seed production from ESALQ, MBA in Business and Cooperative Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Specialist in Occupational Safety Engineering from UCAM, Postgraduate in Digital Journalism. He was president of AprosojaMT (Association of Soybean and Corn Producers of MT) and the Brazilian Association of Soybean Producers (APROSOJA BRASIL) for two terms and is currently a board member of both organizations. Member of Fiesp’s Higher Agribusiness Council and ABMRA (Brazilian Rural Marketing and Agribusiness Association). Current President of the Soy Sector Chamber, Executive Director of Abramilho (Brazilian Corn Association) and President of AREFLORESTA (Association of Reforesters of MT), President of the Rural Union of Campos de Júlio -MT, Presenter and commentator for Canal Rural.

Guilherme Campos Júnior

Secretary of Agricultural Policy, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock

Gustavo Herrmann

CEO, Koppert

Haroldo Rodrigues da Cunha

President, AGOPA

João Otávio de Assis Figueiredo

Head of Livestock, DATAGRO

João Paulo Saraiva Morais

Researcher, Embrapa Algodão

José Mário Schreiner

President, Faeg

Leonardo Machado

Executive Director, Associação dos Produtores de Soja e Milho do Estado de Goiás (Aprosoja-GO)

Lucas Lopes

Technical Advisor, Federação da Agricultura e Pecuária de Goiás (FAEG)

Luis Fernando Ferreira

Co-founder, Groove Agro

Marina Rezende

Risk Management and Market Intelligence Specialist, Nova Piratininga

Marussa Boldrin

Deputada Federal

Miguel Ivan Lacerda

General Manager, Embrapa Arroz e Feijão

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Bioenergy
Institution: USP/UNESP/UNICAMP, São Paulo-SP – 2019
Status: Doctoral Candidate

Master’s in Agribusiness
Institution: Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Goiânia-GO
Completion Date: June 28, 2006

Bachelor’s in Economics
Institution: Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC), Goiânia-GO
Completion Date: April 1996

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BRAZILIAN SERVICE OF SUPPORT FOR MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES (SEBRAE) – Analyst
Period: 2001 to 2011

BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CORPORATION (EMBRAPA) – Analyst Class A
Period: 2011 – Present

MINISTRY OF NATIONAL INTEGRATION (MI) – International Advisor
Period: 2011 to 2015

METRÔDF – METROPOLITAN COMPANY OF BRASÍLIA – Head of Advisory
Period: 2015 to 2016

MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY (MME) – Director of the Department of Biofuels (DBio)
Period: 2016 to 2020

QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES

Process Management – BPM (Duration: 8 hours)
BP Company, BC COMPANY. 2010

Training Multipliers Starting Small Big (Duration: 20 hours)
Corporate University Sebrae, SEBRAE. 2009

Practitioner Training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (Duration: 118 hours)
Equilibrium Center for Human Development, EQUILIBRIUM. 2007

Strategic Management Focused on Results (Duration: 15 hours)
Support Service for Micro and Small Enterprises of Goiás, SEBRAE/GO. 2005

Specialization in Local Development (Duration: 220 hours)
International Labour Organization (ILO), Spain. 2002 – 2003

Bachelor’s in Economics
Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC GOIÁS), Brazil. 1988 – 1996

Consolidated experience in Agribusiness, Biofuels, Fuels, Economics, Behavioral Economics, Negotiation, and Intertemporal Choices.

Responsible for developing RenovaBio, the current national policy for the renewable sector at the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME).

Coordinated the National Irrigation Policy, supporting the creation of a management system for irrigated agriculture, coordinating various agencies in the sector, supporting private initiative and small farmers at the Ministry of National Integration (MI).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Economist with a master’s degree in Agribusiness from the Federal University of Goiás. Formerly a Manager at Sebrae, Director of Regional Development Programs, National Secretary of Irrigation, International Advisor to the Minister at the Ministry of National Integration, and Head of Strategic Planning at Metro DF. Currently, an Analyst Class A at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) and Director of Biofuels at the Ministry of Mines and Energy since November 2016, promoting significant engagements with stakeholders in the fuel supply chain. Believes that biofuels represent a strategic policy for economic, social, and environmental development in Brazil and the world.

LANGUAGES

English: Fluent in conversation, reading, and writing.
Spanish: Advanced level in conversation, reading, and writing.

Nelson Sá

Regional Manager of Irrigation Management and Operations, Valmont

Pedro Schmaedecke

Grain Market Analyst, DATAGRO

Plinio Nastari

President, DATAGRO

Dr. Nastari holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Economics, from Iowa State University.
Phi Kappa Phi (1983), Gamma Sigma Delta (1983).

Was Professor of Economics at FGV – The Getúlio Vargas Foundation, in São Paulo, in undergraduate and graduate level courses (MBA, Masters and Doctoral programs) from 1984 to 2001.

Member of PAPSAC, the Private and Public, Scientific, Academic and Consumer Food Policy Group, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, MA, USA, since 2012.

Professor at the MBA in Agribusiness Joint Programme established between ESPM in São Paulo and Université de Nantes, France, since 2015.

Former Executive Director and President of the Board of the Brazilian Association of Automotive Engineers (AEA), from 2000 to 2002, during the 1980s he helped the design of ethanol specifications which enabled the use of ethanol in fuel injected engines.

He has served as member of the Technical Committees of Brazil’s Interministerial Council on Sugar and Alcohol, National Energy Commission, and Commission for Reexam of the Energy Matrix. He has assisted the Brazilian government in Energy Planning (1984-86 and 1991-93), industry deregulation (1997-1999), trade negotiations (1991-2004), and trade disputes.

Representative of the Civil Society Specialist in Energy at the National Council on Energy Policy, at the Federal Government of Brazil, designated for the period of 2016 to 2018, and reassigned until 2020.

With extensive experience in trade negotiations and trade disputes at the International Trade Commission and the World Trade Organization, Dr. Nastari has acted before the Brazilian Government as Chief Economist in the trade disputes involving ethanol exports to the United States (US ITC), and subsidized sugar exports from the European Union, European Union bananas import regime, and Brazilian regime for the import of used and retreaded tires (WTO).

He is Arbitrator at the “Camara FGV de Arbitragem” (Arbitration Chamber of the Getulio Vargas Foundation), and at “Camara de Conciliação e Arbitragem da Sociedade Rural Brasileira”) and has acted as Expert Testimony in many cases, at this Chamber and at ICC, the International Chamber of Commerce, in Paris.

Lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – Second Assessment Report (2AR), and Consultant for Biomass Energy other than Wood, to the World Energy Council.

Co-founder and Member of the Sustainable Biofuels Consensus (Bellagio Consensus), Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy, 2008, and Participant of the Bled Strategic Forum, since 2008 in Bled, Slovenia.
Dr. Nastari is Member of the World Sugar Committee, at ICE Futures (Intercontinental Exchange) in New York, where recommendations are made for improvements in contract rules and other matters related to the world trade of sugar.

Member of the Council on Infrastructure of ACSP – Commerce Association of São Paulo, in São Paulo, since 2012.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, National Laboratory for Science and Technology of Bioethanol, National Research Center on Energy and Materials, Brazil´s Ministry of Science, Technology, Inovation and Communication, Federative Republico f Brazil, since 2018.

President and CEO of DATAGRO Consulting Ltd., one of the world’s leading consulting company specialized in agricultural markets, serving clients in 41 countries, since 1984.

He leads a team of 97 collaborators at Datagro, housed in seven offices (Alphaville, Sao Paulo/Capital, Ribeirao Preto, Santos, Recife, Piracicaba, and New York), assisting a host of companies in market analysis, investments in production and logistics assets related to sugar, ethanol and other agrindustrial activities, in countries in the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Throughout the years, Dr. Nastari established a fruitful cooperation between Datagro and the International Sugar Organization (ISO), jointly organizing the prestigious Sugar & Ethanol Conference that precedes the Person of the Year Award (BrazilCham) and the New York Sugar Dinner for the last ten years. He was Chairman of the 19th ISO Annual Seminar in London.

Organizer of the Sugar & Ethanol Summit – Brazil Day, for five consecutive years in London, in cooperation with Brazil’s Ministry of External Relations. Organizer for seventeen consecutive years of the traditional Datagro International Conference in São Paulo that precedes the São Paulo Sugar Dinner, and the Datagro Ceise Br Fenasucro Conference in Sertãozinho, SP, the largest equipment fair for sugar & ethanol in the world. Organizer of the Global Agribusiness Forum, in partnership with the Brazilian Rural Society (SRB), ABRAMILHO (corn producers), ABCZ (cattle producers),Citrus BR (orange juice producers) and Forum Nacional Sucroenergetico (sugar & ethanol producers) a biannual venue which has the official support of the USDA, the European Commission, and the governments of France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Israel, Turkey and Cuba.

Dr. Nastari is a frequent speaker at energy, biofuels and agribusiness conferences around the globe, with frequent attendance in London, Paris, Brussels, New York, Washington, Delhi, Bangkok, Tokyo, Barcelona, Kyoto, Johannesburg, Bled, Orlando, São Paulo, Singapore, Amsterdam and Dubai.

Honorary Citizen of the State of Nebraska, State Assembly of the State of Nebraska, USA (1998).
Honorary Citizen of the State of Pernambuco, State Assembly of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil (2016).
Scholarship President Ernesto Geisel, by the American Chamber of Commerce in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1978)

Prize Canassauro Rex (2002).

Keynote Speaker, New York Sugar Dinner 2013, New York, NY, USA (2013).

Prize Top Ethanol (2014), Unica, Union of the Sugar Cane Industry.

Prize Merit of Agroenergy (2018), UDOP, União dos Produtores de Bioenergia.

100 Most Influential in Energy, Full Energy (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).

Ethanol Man of the Year, Mastercana International (2019).

Keynote Speaker, Sugar & Ethanol Dinner Brazil 2019, Bienal Pavillion Sao Paulo (2019).

Grand Official of the Order of Merit of Anhanguera, State Government of Goiás, 2017.

Commander, Order of Rio Branco, Brazilian Government, 2018.

From his contribution to the development of biofuels in the US Dr. Nastari was awarded and recognized at the White House for his contribution to the development of biofuels use in aviation (2003).

Married to Rute, the couple has three children, Francisco Guilherme (36), Louise (34) and Luiz Felipe (33), and four grandchildren, Carolina (6), José (5), Anna Sophie (4) and Francisco Luiz (3).

Sérgio Castanho Teixeira Mendes

General Director, Associação Nacional de Exportadores de Cereais (ANEC)

Thiago Wilian Sanches

Logistics Coordinator, SLC Agrícola

Thiago Wilian Sanches is the Logistics Coordinator at SLC Agrícola, with over 20 years of experience in logistics applied to agribusiness.

He has experience in multimodal transportation, warehousing, freight management, port operations, and agricultural exports, with a focus on operational efficiency, innovation, and cross-functional integration.

At SLC Agrícola, he coordinates logistics operations for cotton, seeds, machinery, inputs, grains, and livestock, leading projects focused on logistics intelligence, cost optimization, and new operational models for cotton distribution.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and an MBA from Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

Vilmar Euripedes da Silva Junior

Technical Analyst, Instituto para o Fortalecimento da Agropecuária de Goiás (IFAG)

William Medeiros

Market Intelligence Coordinator, Neomille - Cerradinho Bioenergia