Alexandre Baldy

Vice-President Sênior, BYD

Graduated in Law from Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC-GO), he became an entrepreneur at 18 when he started his first company, and since then, he has built a solid and successful career in the private sector, especially in industry.

In 2011, he entered public life, balancing his careers, and during this period, he gained extensive experience in the public sector, holding significant positions in Goiás as Secretary of Industry and Commerce, Federal Deputy, and President of the Housing Agency; in São Paulo as Secretary of State for Metropolitan Transportation; and in Brasília with an impressive role in the Chamber of Deputies, having been the leader of the largest party bloc in the House, President of Permanent and Provisional Committees, reported on over 20 legislative matters (such as repatriation and other economic issues), and was awarded as one of the five most influential parliamentarians in Congress in 2017. He served as Minister of State for Cities, overseeing the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program, Urban Mobility nationwide, and was a signatory of the Basic Sanitation Regulatory Framework and creator of the Digital Driver’s License in Brazil.

In the private sector, he serves on various company boards across different economic segments. He is the Senior Vice President of BYD Brasil and the Head of BYD Auto Brasil.

Recently, he sold his packaging industry businesses, which he started over 18 years ago, becoming a market leader in each segment of activity.

Social work has always been a prominent aspect of Baldy’s life, a trait he learned from his father, Prosecutor Joel Sant’Anna Braga, and his mother, Eulina Baldy de Sant’Anna. He is married to Luana Limírio Gonçalves Braga and is the father of Alexandre Filho and Cléo.

He currently stands out as one of the leading young intermediaries between private life and national politics.

Giovana Araujo

Lead Partner for Agribusiness, KPMG

Guilherme Campos Júnior

Secretary of Agricultural Policy, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock

Guilherme Nastari

Director, DATAGRO

COMING SOON

Henrique Berbert de Amorim Neto

President Director, APLA and President, Fermentec

Henrique Berbert de Amorim Neto is President of Fermentec, a company that offers integrated solutions for the sugar-energy sector, covering ethanol, sugar, energy, rum, and tequila. With over a decade of experience in leading multidisciplinary teams, he coordinates applied research and customized projects to improve the quality and competitiveness of products and processes globally.

At the same time, he is President of APLA (Local Alcohol Production Arrangement), where he leads the Brazil Sugarcane Bioenergy Solution Project in partnership with ApexBrasil. This strategic initiative fosters the development and internationalization of the sugarcane agro-industrial chain, promoting technologies, equipment, services, and participation in global trade shows and business rounds, boosting the sector’s competitiveness.

He serves as Technical Director of CMCT (Municipal Council for Science and Technology) and Advisor to ACIP (Commercial and Industrial Association of Piracicaba), connecting scientific and technological development to industry. He is a speaker and author of articles on topics relevant to the sector.

He holds an MBA in Administration and Organizations from FEA-USP, an M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Abertay Dundee University (Scotland), and a degree in Agricultural Engineering from UFLA. His mission is to convert knowledge into value for the progress of the sugar-energy sector and society.

Hugo Cagno

President, UDOP

Mário Campos Filho

Executive President, Bioenergia Brasil and Siamig Bioenergia

Mário Ferreira Campos Filho is 39 years old. He is an economist graduaded from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), with an MBA in Finance from IBMEC and Government Relations from FGV Brasília.

He has been active in the sector since 2003. Currently, he is the executive president of the Sugar-Ethanol Industries Association of Minas Gerais – SIAMIG – and the Unions of the Sugar and Alcohol Industry in the State of Minas Gerais.

In 2021, he assumed the role of Chairman of the Sugar and Alcohol Sector Chamber of the Ministry of Agriculture and Bioenergia Brasil.

He is also the president of the Environmental and Sustainable Development Council of the Federation of Industries of Minas Gerais.

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.

Paulo Leal

President, Feplana

Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1975, owner of the “Paulo Sérgio de Marco Leal” Engineering Office

CEO of Cooperativa Regional Agrícola Mista de Cambará Ltda – COOPRAMIL from 1996 to 2016.

President of the Federation of Sugarcane Planters of Brazil – FEPLANA – 1st period 03/2010 to 03/2016 and 2nd period since 2021.

Vice President of the Cambará- Paraná Rural Union since 06/2014.

Provider of the Beneficent Association Casa de Misericórdia de Cambará since 2008.

Pedro Robério de Melo Nogueira

Vice-President, COAGRO/CNI

Positions Held:

Director of PR Consultoria e Assessoria (a Planning, Consulting, and Business Advisory firm, particularly in the sugar and alcohol agroindustry sector)

President of the Sugar and Alcohol Industry Union of the State of Alagoas

Full Member of the Sectorial Chamber of the Sugar and Alcohol Production Chain at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply

Member of the Technical Committee of CIMA – Interministerial Council of Sugar and Alcohol

Director of the Sugar and Alcohol Affairs Department at the Secretariat for Regional Development of the Presidency of the Republic

Full Member of the Commission that reexamined the role of alcohol in the National Energy Matrix in 1990

Member of the Brazilian Delegation to the Sugar/Alcohol Commission of MERCOSUR – Montevideo – January to August 1993

Full Member of the Commission that reexamined the role of alcohol in the National Energy Matrix – MME – 1990/1993

Executive in companies in the sugar and alcohol sector

Pedro Tavares Campos Neto

President, Unida and President of the Sectoral Chamber of the Alcohol and Sugar Production Chain of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock

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).

Renato Romio

Engine and Vehicle Division Manager, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia