Adalnio Senna Ganem

Consul of Brazil in New York, Consulate General of Brazil in New York

André Lacape

Chief Investment Officer, Pantaleon Group

Arnaldo Jardim

Federal Deputy, Chamber of Deputies, Brasilia, Brazil.

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Bruno Cezar Leitão Trombelli

Commercial Director, Raízen

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Bruno Serapião

CEO, Atvos

“As CEO of Atvos, one of the largest biofuel producers in Latin America, I lead the strategic vision and execution of the company’s sustainable growth and social impact. With more than 20 years of experience in diverse sectors such as transportation, logistics, infrastructure and energy, I have developed a unique combination of analytical, operational and entrepreneurial skills that allow me to drive innovation and performance in complex and dynamic environments.

My passion is to create value for all stakeholders, from investors to communities, by harnessing the potential of renewable and clean energy sources such as ethanol, biomass and biogas. I have a solid academic background, with an MBA from INSEAD, an MSc in Operations Research from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a DBA in progress from the Université de Bordeaux. I also serve as a board member and advisor to several companies and organizations in the region, sharing my expertise and insights on emerging markets, impact investing and business leadership.”

Carlos Castro

General Manager, Perucaña

Celso Catan

Senior Investment Lead - Latin America, Pegasus Capital Advisors

Ernesto Revilla

Chief Economist for Latin America, Citi

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Evandro Gussi 1.0

President, UNICA

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Fernanda Firmino

Vice President of Biofuels for South America, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits

Fernando Rodriguez Uslenghi

Regional Director, Control Union North America

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Guilherme Nastari

Director, DATAGRO

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Guilherme Piai Filizzola

Secretary of Agriculture and Supply of the State of São Paulo

Humberto Jasso Torres

Executive President, CNIAA

Humberto Jasso serves as the Executive President of the Mexican Sugar Chamber, a pivotal organization representing the interests of sugar mill companies engaged in the conversion of cane into sugar throughout Mexico. In this capacity, he advocates on behalf of the industry before government entities, collaborates with cane growers and labor unions, and champions Mexican sugar in international markets. His advocacy extends to promoting sugar as a healthy ingredient.

Mr. Jasso also holds the position of Vice President at the World Sugar Research Organization, headquartered in London. This organization is committed to the objective analysis of scientific research on sugar and promotes a science-based understanding of its role in health.

Additionally, Mr. Jasso serves as Vice President for International Trade at the Mexican National Agricultural Council (CNA), the premier private sector body representing farmers, ranchers, fisheries, forestry, and the agroindustry.
Prior to his leadership at the Mexican Sugar Chamber, which began in 2011, Mr. Jasso had an illustrious 22-year career at Mexico’s Trade Ministry. His notable achievements include participation in the original negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Humberto Jasso resides in Mexico City with his wife and two sons. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Yale University and a Master’s Degree in Economic Development from Cambridge University.

Jorge Leal

CEO, Ingenio Magdalena S.A.

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.

Kiran Wadhwana

Diretor Executivo, Comdex India

Luis Miguel Paiz

General Manager, Asazgua

Marcelo Andrade

President, Cofco

Marcelo Marangon

President, Citi

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Marshal Salant

Managing Director, CITI.

Michael McDougall

CEO, McDougall Global View

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.

Olivier Crassard

Head of Research, Sucden

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).

Ravi Gupta

Director, Shree Renuka Sugars Limited

Renato Pontes Cunha

President, Sindaçúcar-PE

Roberto Perosa

Secretary of International Relations, MAPA.

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Roshan Lal Tamak

CEO, Group DCM

Sanjeev Chopra

Secretary of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India

Thiago Arruda

Director and Head of Latin America, European Energy

Zé Vitor

Federal Deputy, President of the Parliamentary Front of Ethanol, Chamber of Deputies

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