Abel Uchoa

President Director, Cocal

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.

Amaury Pekelman

Executive President, União Nacional do Etanol de Milho (UNEM)

President of UDOP, Chairman of the Board of BIOSUL and Vice-President of Institutional Relations at Atvos Agroindustrial;
Economist, post-graduate in International Economics, Marketing and Accounting in Financial and Administration;
Professional with extensive experience in Government Relations, Sustainability and Communication, with over twenty years of proficiency in Institutional Affairs and corporate event management.

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

André Luiz Torquetti

National Sales and Marketing Manager, Grunner

Ana Silvia Blanco Araujo

Chief Financial Officer, Associação de Olho no Material Escolar

Arnaldo Jardim

Federal Deputy and Vice President of Frente Parlamentar da Agropecuária (FPA) Chamber of Deputies

Cristiano Oliveira

Executive Director, Banco Pine

Daniel Lopes

Executive Vice President of Sustainability and Business Development, FS Fueling Sustainability

Darlan Silva dos Santos

Coordinator for Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), Ministry of Mines and Energy

Eliseo Llamazares

Regional Industry Leader for the Aerospace Sector, KPMG

Enrico Grimaldi

Partner, Tarpon

Ernani Judice

President, Agrion Fertilizantes

Academic Training

• Business Administration – PUC Rio de Janeiro (1995 – 2000 drop out to follow international racing career)

Business Professional Experience

Sales Manager – MONY Life Insurance Company (Brazil / USA 1997 – 1999)
• Life Insurance Company and Variable Income Funds, with headquarters in the USA;
• Focus on selling income-based life insurance in the US and approach of the company with funds in Brazil (e.g. Banco Itaú, Banco
Multiplic).

Partner & General Manager – Holding of Brazil Insurance Broker
Performance Insurance (United States 1997 – 1999)
• Development and management of life insurance wallet with servers of the State of São Paulo, from the bank Nossa Caixa Nosso Banco;
• Insurance in general.
• Representation in the state of Rio de Janeiro of COSESP (Companhia de
Insurance of the State of São Paulo)
• Insurance Platform South America Insurance

Executive Director & Partner – Two Arches Waste Treatment Center
Other enterprises (managing partner) (United States 2005 – 2009)
• Landfill planning, implementation, licensing and management private and solutions for urban and health waste in the northern region of state of Rio de Janeiro. Contracts with 12 municipalities in the region.
• Leadership in project implementation and management of:
• Street lighting,
• Collection of garbage,
• Management of hospitals and health points,
• Works, Cleaning and maintenance of public places,

Founder (CEO 2009 – 2014 and 2106 – 2018) – Geocycle Biotechnology S/A (Brazil 2009 – currently)
Business Model Formation, Preparation of Business Plans,
Executive Management;
• Development of technology, production process (bench, plant pilot, Ramp up), and sales;
• Funding, relationship with financial institutions, entities of the sector, M&A processes, etc.
• Open Innovation R&D laboratories;
• Leadership in the company’s extensive restructuring process;

Founding Partner – VENTINNO Capital (Brazil 2009 – currently)
Investment holding company and participation in business, mentoring and consulting,
such as:
• Prepark: technology company for technology mobility and management of parking lots;
• Pay Via Fone: joint venture with Pay By Phone, the world’s largest company to electronic parking payment platform;
• Joint venture with US Specialty Minerals Inc in PCC project (Precipitated Calcium Carbonate) with Klabin;
• Be Green: largest urban farms company in Latin America
• Aroma Selezione: beverage production company;

CEO & Founder – AGRION Agrisolutions (Brazil / USA 2020 – currently)
• Agrion Agrisolutions: company that develops sustainable agriculture projects for large waste generators and fertilizer consumers.

Evandro Gussi

President, UNICA

Evandro Gussi is the President and CEO of the União da Indústria de Cana-de-Açúcar e Bioenergia (Unica), an organization dedicated to providing clean, renewable, and natural energy in the form of sugar, biofuels, bioelectricity, and biomass.

Before taking on the leadership of UNICA, Evandro Gussi served as the Comptroller-General of the Chamber of Deputies. Elected to Congress in 2014 (term from 2015-2019), he served as the leader of his party between 2016 and 2017.

Gussi was the author of the “RENOVABIO” Law, a key piece of legislation aimed at increasing the use of biofuels in Brazil, contributing to the country’s achievement of its greenhouse gas reduction targets and its commitments under the Paris Agreement.

Evandro Gussi holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo (2009) and a Master’s in Law from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2005).

Felipe Dias

Global Sugar Cane Production System Manager, John Deere

Geraldo Melo Filho

Secretary of State, São Paulo State Department of Agriculture and Food Supply

Gerson Borini

Automotive Engineering Consultant, Site Autoentusiastas

Giovana Araujo

Lead Partner for Agribusiness, KPMG

Guilherme Campos Júnior

Secretary of Agricultural Policy, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock

Guilherme Fontana

CEO, Fontes Verdes

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

Igor Calvet

President, Associação Nacional dos Fabricantes de Veículos Automotores (Anfavea)

Ingo Kalder

Partner, DATAGRO Financial

Itamar Borges

State Deputy and President of the São Paulo Agribusiness Parliamentary Front, ALESP

Fleet Admiral Claudio Mello

Permanent Representative of Brazil to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)

Fleet Admiral José Augusto da Cunha de Menezes

Former Permanent Representative of Brazil to the International Maritime Organization

Jeremy Austin

Director, Sucden Brasil.

João Irineu Medeiros

Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Stellantis Latin America

Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from UFMG, postgraduate in Structural Engineering from UFMG and in Economic Engineering from Fundação Dom Cabral, with an MBA in Business Management from Fundação Dom Cabral and post-MBA from Kellogg School of Management Chicago, Northwestern University, USA. He joined the company in 1987, working in product development, powertrain and chassis in Latin America, and at the Tech Centre in the USA.

José Fernando Mazuca Filho

CEO, UISA and President, Sindicato das Indústrias de Bioenergia de Mato Grosso (Bioind MT)

José Orive

Executive Director, ISO

José Orive is currently the Executive Director of the International Sugar Organization, a post he assumed in January 2014.

Previously Mr Orive was the Executive Director of the Central American Sugar Association (AICA) for 19 years, where he was responsible for negotiations for the the private sugar industry, with emphasis on coordination of    joint actions on priority issues, clearinghouse for information relevant to the sector, publications, participation in international forae.

Since 2010 he also was a partner in ARTLEX law firm in charge of large corporate clients, distribution contracts and environmental issues and arbitration.  He has also held senior posts in other law firms in Guatemala.

Soon after graduating from Georgetown University Law Centre in Washington in 1985 Mr Orive took up the post of Minister Counselor for Economic & Commercial Affairs, Embassy of   Guatemala, Washington, D.C.

Mr Orive is married with two sons.

Luis Fernando Ferreira

CEO, Groove Agro

Luiz Gustavo Wiechoreki

General Coordinator of Sugarcane and Agroenergy, MAPA

Makarand Chitale

Director, Mist Ressonance Engineering Pvt Ltd

Marco Anton

Managing Partner, Nutristrahl

Marco Anton, who holds a degree in Economics with an MBA in Finance and a Master’s degree in Business Management, is an executive with extensive experience in business structuring, corporate restructuring and strategic planning. His professional career includes prominent positions in renowned multinational companies, where he has left his mark through his leadership and entrepreneurial skills. Marco served as General Manager of Sun Chemical do Brasil, where he played a key role in restructuring the company and implementing successful growth strategies. In addition, he was also CEO of Grupo Metalur, leading the restructuring of operations and driving positive results. More recently, Marco Anton was responsible for restructuring the activities of the Swiss group Omya in Brazil, demonstrating his expertise in revitalising businesses and promoting sustainable growth. Serving as General Manager of Chen Hsong South America since 2012, he recently assumed the position of General Manager of Chen Hsong Americas. Marco Anton continues to lead with excellence, bringing his experience in strategic management and driving the company’s success. In addition, he is a managing partner at Strahl Consultoria, where his expertise is applied in strategic advisory services to companies in various sectors.
As managing partner of Boipeba Filmes, Marco is also involved in the entertainment world, contributing to the development and execution of highly successful projects such as Netflix’s Invisible City and Hulu’s How to be a Carioca. At Nutristrahl, a start-up in the agricultural market, Marco Anton plays a key role as managing partner, responsible for structuring and managing the company.

Marcos Sampaio Olsen

Fleet Admiral and Commander of the Brazilian Navy

Marília Folegatti

Researcher, Embrapa Meio Ambiente

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.

Mario de Rezende Barbosa

Head of Strategy, LDC

A senior executive with over 20 years of global experience in the sugar, ethanol, and grain markets, having held strategic roles at industry giants such as LDC, COFCO, Cargill, and Noble. He currently leads Sugar Strategy in Brazil and LDC’s proprietary raw sugar trading. He is a specialist in P&L management and complex commercial operations, with deep expertise in physical and derivatives markets in Latin America and Europe.

Marlon Arraes

Director of the Department of Biofuels, Ministry of Mines and Energy

Marussa Boldrin

Deputada Federal

Maurício Nahas

Commercial Director, HydroCavit

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.

Milton Santos Campelo da Silva

President, Sindicanálcool­-MA

Agricultural Engineer with a Master’s Degree in Economics (IDP)

Nelson Perez Junior

President of the National Sugarcane Commission, CNA

Paulo Castilho

Partner, DATAGRO High Performance

COMING SOON

Paulo Garcia

President, Vital Corretora

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.

Paulo Rocca Vieira

Vice-Chair of BISB | New Business Development | Public Funding and Intellectual Property, Bosch Brasil

Paulo Rocca S. Vieira is a mechanical engineer who graduated from Mackenzie University and holds a postgraduate qualification in International Marketing and Economics and Business Administration. He has held the position of Vice-President of Innovation, New Business and Intellectual Property at Bosch Latin America since April 2022. He has been the founder and director of Bosch Soluções Integradas Brasil Ltda. since 2015 (BISB – the legal entity for the incubation and scaling platform for new businesses).
Among BISB’s current businesses under development are: Bosch Mine Solutions, established in Brazil, Chile and South Africa since 2018; and DriveB – fleet maintenance management in Brazil and Argentina since 2019.

Pedro Lupion

Federal Deputy, President of the Parliamentary Front for Agribusiness, Chamber of Deputies

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).

Raphael Juliace Magalhães

Head of Agriculture, Food & Beverages and Processing Plants, MARSH

Renato Pontes Cunha

President, Sindaçúcar-PE

Renato Romio

Engine and Vehicle Division Manager, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia

Ricardo Bastos

President, ABVE

With a degree in economics, the executive has over 25 years’ experience in the automotive sector, acting as an interlocutor and responsible for conducting negotiations with the government and dealing with authorities, the press and other stakeholders. Having worked for Ford and Toyota, he took part in decisive moments for these companies and in projects to expand and build new factories in Brazil. Ricardo Bastos is currently President of ABVE and Director of Institutional and Government Affairs at GWM.

Roberto Cestari

President, Organização de Associações de Produtores de Cana do Brasil (ORPLANA)

Tirso Meirelles

President, FAESP SENAR

Thiago Callegari L. Duarte

Associate Partner, BTG Pactual

Thiago Duarte is a partner and senior equity research analyst at BTG Pactual. He covers Latin American companies in the Agribusiness and Food & Beverage sectors. His team has been awarded as the number one research team in Latin America and Brazil in Agribusiness and Food & Beverage for eight consecutive years (2017-2024) by the Institutional Investor ranking. Thiago Duarte joined BTG Pactual in 2009 after working as a securities analyst at Schroder Investment Management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo.