International expert on sustainable finance and corporate sustainability. Adjunct Full Professor of Sustainable Finance at NOVA School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), in Portugal (ranked 6th best business school worldwide on finance by FT). Founder and CEO of the Granito Group, an award-winning advisory firm on sustainability. From 2011 to 2014, he served as Head of the São Paulo State Government’s Office of Foreign Affairs (world’s 19th largest economy). In 2008–2010, he was invited by the UN Secretariat to write Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s annual reports on Africa’s development. His academic path includes the universities of Harvard (Senior Research Fellow), Columbia (Research Fellow on a postdoc grant), Gothenburg (Ph.D.), and California, Berkeley (Visiting Research Fellow). He has taken executive courses at Harvard University on negotiation (2006) and on global leadership (2021); at Princeton University on energy transition (2022); and at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on Artificial Intelligence (2023). Author of five books, including “Paradiplomacy: Cities and States as Global Players” (Oxford University Press). Nominated Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (2017), and Young Leader by the Government of Quebec in Canada (2011). Columnist at Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil) and Expresso (Portugal), and commentator at TSF radio (Portugal). His views have been published by the Financial Times, Fortune, Quartz, Arab News, World Economic Forum. He has been featured in the press as “one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable finance” (Globo).