Arthur Lira

President, Câmara dos Deputados (Lower House in the Brazilian Congress)

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Minister Bento Albuquerque

Ministry of Mines and Energy

Minister Joaquim Álvaro Pereira Leite

Ministry of Environment

Minister Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias

Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply - MAPA

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Abinash Verma

General Director, Indian Sugar Mills Association

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Alexandre Aoude

Partner, Vectis

Amaury Pekelman

Executive President, Biosul

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.

Ana Paula Malvestio

Board Counsel and Auditor

André Rocha

Executive President, SIFAEG.

10º Vice-President of FIEG since 2019;

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

President of CELG 2004-2007

Aparício Bezerra

Director of Operations for South America - Lucas E3, LLC

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Arlindo Farias

President, Sonal-RN

Carolina Troster de Hollanda

Partner, DATAGRO Financial

Carolina Troster is a partner at DATAGRO Financial. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial market and has worked at institutions such as Banco ABC Brasil and Citi. Outside of Brazil, she was Director of Wealth Management at UBS Bank in Geneva, Switzerland, and Vice-Director of the structured operations distribution area at Cargill in Singapore.

Christopher Podgorski

President and CEO, Scania Latin America

Cintia Ticianelli

President, SINDICANALCOOL-MA

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Daniel Lopes Hytron

Director, Hytron

Edmundo Coelho Barbosa

President, Sindálcool-PB

Executive President of the Union of the Alcohol Manufacturing Industry in the State of Paraíba; Studied at the University of São Paulo and the Mackenzie University School of Engineering. Graduated in Mechanical Engineering Mackenzie University – São Paulo 1970 – 1974: Graduated in Social Sciences Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Social Sciences – University of São Paulo.

Positions:
Businessman since 1986 – Nutritiva Alimentos Ltda;
Member of Bioenergia Brasil.
Member of the Northeast Biotechnology Network;
Member of the Agribusiness Innovation and Technological Prospecting Network;
Member of CNI’s Agroindustry Thematic Council – COAGRO;
Member of the State Water Resources Council – CERH.

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).

Flavio Castellari

Specialist in Access to International Markets

Guilherme Nastari

Director, DATAGRO

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Gustavo Leite Segantini

Sales, Marketing and Logistics, Tereos

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Henrique Viana Amorim

Board Chairman, Fermentec

Henry Joseph Jr

Director of Sustainability and Strategic and Institutional Partnerships, ANFAVEA

Henry Joseph Junior is the Technical Director of ANFAVEA. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelor’s in Chemistry from Universidade Mackenzie, with further specialization from Tsukuba University (Japan) and over 30 published papers on fuels and vehicle emissions. He worked for 36 years in Engineering at Volkswagen, focusing on engines, ethanol, emissions, and lubricants. He was one of the key figures in the development of flex-fuel technology.

Itamar Borges

State Deputy, State of São Paulo

Jeremy Austin

General Director, Sucden Brazil

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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.

Jucelino Sousa

Business Coach, Bioenergética Aroeira S.A.

Leandro Aranha

President, Geoflorestas

Leisa Souza

Head of CBI, Latin America

Luis Roberto Pogetti

President of the Board of Directors of Copersucar, Alvean and CTC

With a degree in Business Administration from PUC-SP, a specialization in Finance and a master’s degree from Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Luís Roberto Pogetti is Chairman of the Board for Copersucar, Alvean and Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira (CTC – Sugarcane Technology Center).

Before joining Copersucar in 2001, he held executive management positions at Banco do Brasil, Sharp Group and Samsung Eletronics.

Luiz Carlos Moraes

President, Anfavea

Marcelo Ometto

Member of Board São Martinho, Chairman of Board of ÚNICA, Vice President FIESP

Mariane Pinhão

Founder, PK Advogados

Mário Campos Filho

Executive President, Siamig e Bioenergia Brasil

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.

Marlon Arraes

Ethanol General Coordinator, MME

Mechanical Engineer from the Federal University of Brasilia. Specialization in Public Policy and Government Management at the National School of Public Administration. Specialist in Political Science from the Federal University of Brasilia. MBA in Oil and Gas Business Management at the Brazilian Institute of Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels.
He is a member of the career of Specialists in Public Policy and Government Management of the Federal Government since 2004 and General Coordinator of Ethanol at the Ministry of Mines and Energy since 2005.
In 2014, he coordinated the High Ethanol Mixture Studies Testing Program with Petrobras, the National Association of Automotive Vehicle Manufacturers (ANFAVEA) and the Brazilian Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (ABRACICLO).
In 2018, he coordinated the elaboration of the Economic Model for the definition of the goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the RenovaBio Committee, within the scope of this Program.
He is currently Deputy Director of the Biofuels Department.

Matheus Zilioti

Partner, Santos Neto Advogados

Mauro Mattoso

Head of the Biofuels Deartment, BNDES

Economist graduated from UFRJ with an Executive MBA from COPPEAD/UFRJ, has worked at BNDES for 19 years, with the last 12 years in the sugar-energy sector, initially as an operational manager and in the past 2 years as Head of the Agro-food and Biofuels Complex Department in the Industry, Services, and Foreign Trade Division.

Michael Schaupp

Managing Director / COO / Chief Sales Officer, Pfeifer & Langen

Michael Schaupp is a Managing Director at Pfeifer & Langen and responsible for the main divisions Production, Supply Chain, Purchasing and Sales.

Before joining Pfeifer & Langen he worked as a Managing Director for a leading German company for highly processed grain products and baking ingredients mainly in the food industry.

Prior to this he was involved in technical industries and has several years of experience in North America and France.

Michael McDougall

Managing Director, Paragon Global Markets

Miguel Rubens Tranin

President, Alcopar

Born in Paranavai (PR). He has a degree in Agronomic Engineering and a post-graduate degree in Commodities Trading from CEPEA, USP.
He has worked in the sugar-energy sector for 22 years. He is a partner in the Nova Produtiva Agroindustrial Cooperative, based in Astorga (PR). He is currently CEO of Alcopar (Association of Bioenergy Producers of the State of Paraná).

Positions:
– President of Sialpar (Alcohol Manufacturing Industry Union of the State of Paraná)
– President of Siapar (Sugar Industry Union in the State of Paraná).
– President of Sibiopar (Biodiesel Production Industry Union of the State of Paraná).
– President of Sibielpar (Union of the Industry of Production and Generation of Bioelectricity through
biomass and biogas from sugarcane in the state of Paraná).
– At the Ministry of Agriculture, he is a member of the Sugar and Alcohol Sector Chamber.
– Member of the Agribusiness Infrastructure and Logistics Thematic Chamber.
– At CNI (Coagro) he is a member of the Agroindustry Thematic Council.
– Board member of the National Sugar and Energy Forum.
– Member of IPA (Instituto Pensar Agropecuária).
– Vice President of the Federation of Industries of Paraná (FIEP).

Pablo Di Si

President & CEO, Volkswagen North America

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Pedro Fernandes

Head of Agribusiness Department, Itaú BBA

Pedro Fernandes joined Itaú BBA in 2002, with a previous professional experience at Procter & Gamble, in France. Since his commencement at Itaú BBA, Fernandes has worked in several areas such as: Credit Department, Corporate Client coverage and leaded the Financial Sponsors team.

In 2012, Fernandes joined Itau´s partnership program as a junior partner and was promoted to managing director in 2014, having already served this role in the south region of Brazil and in the countryside of São Paulo’s state. Since 2017, Fernandes has been serving as head of Itaú BBA’s  Agribusiness Department. Fernandes holds a degree in Production Engineering from Escola Politécnica da USP, with a specialization at École Centrale de Paris.

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

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).

Rafael Abud

CEO, FS Bioenergia

Rafael Abud has been working in the renewable energy sector for over 15 years. Currently, he works as FS’s CEO and has been working in the company since its foundation, leading all development stages – from startup to expansion – to become one of the largest ethanol companies in Brazil. Previously, Rafael was responsible for the development and management of all enterprises under Summit Agricultural Group management in Brazil, mainly those related to the operation of holdings in agricultural and renewable energy properties. Before joining the Summit and FS, Rafael founded JETBIO and BioVentures Brasil, where he headed projects in biodiesel production and processing technology, energy generation, production of energy crops and aircraft biofuels. He currently serves on the board of the Brazilian Corn Ethanol Union (UNEM), which he co-founded, and on the board of Sindalcool – MT, an association of the ethanol industry in Mato Grosso. Rafael has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from FAAP.

Rafael Chang

President, Toyota do Brasil

Rangsit Hiangrat

Executive Director, Thai Sugar Millers Corporation

Renato Domith Godinho

Chairperson, Biofuture Platform

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Renato Pontes Cunha

President, Sindaçúcar-PE

Ricardo Abe

Sr Product Development Manager, Nissan do Brasil

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Ricardo Hiroshi

Tax Litigation and Consulting Partner, PK Advogados

Ricardo Mussa

CEO, Raízen

Rob Johansson

Director of Economics and Policy Analysis, American Sugar Alliance

Dr. Johansson is the Director of Economics and Policy Analysis for the American Sugar Alliance, the national coalition of sugarbeet and sugarcane growers, processors, and refiners.  Previously, Dr. Johansson served as the Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and was responsible for advising the Secretary of Agriculture on programs, regulations, and legislative proposals.  Dr. Johansson served as the Chairman of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board of Directors and the G20 Agricultural Market Information System. He was also responsible for establishing the Farm Production and Conservation (or FPAC) mission area. Dr. Johansson has also held senior positions at the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, and at the White House.

Roberto Hollanda Filho

President, BIOSUL

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Rodrigo Alandia

Product Marketing Director - Latin America

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Samanta Pineda

Founder Partner, Pineda & Krahn Advogados

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Sílvio Rangel

President, FIEMT

Tércio Dalla Vechia

CEO, Reunion Engenharia

William Yassumoto

Regional President, Novozymes