Director Institutional Relations ABH2, Brazilian Hydrogen Association, Mentor Hydrogen, SAE Brazil

 

Monica Saraiva Panik is Brazilian, born in São Paulo, graduated in Social Communication from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado and Business MBA in Marketing from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He worked 18 years for the automotive industry in Brazil and 11 years in hydrogen and fuel cell technologies world leading companies in Germany. He has 25 years of experience in the hydrogen sector. He was Project Manager for the Consortium which implemented the project “Fuel Cell Bus for Urban Transport in Brazil” during 10 years. She worked in the organization of the 22nd World Hydrogen Energy Conference in Rio de Janeiro in June 2018. Today she is Director of Institutional Relations of the Brazilian Hydrogen Association (ABH2), Mentor of Hydrogen Mobility at SAE Brasil, Curator of BW Expo Summit Digital, Consultant FIEC and several Brazilian and international institutions. In 2021 she was nominated as one of the “Remarkable Women in the field of transport” by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) within the framework of the TUMI (Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative).