Agustín Torroba

International Specialist in Biofuels and Renewable Energies, IICA-OAS

Agustín Torroba has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Energies from the University of Buenos Aires. He also holds a Diploma in Energy Economics and Energy Planning. Additionally, he is a Diploma holder in Renewable Energy Project Assessment and Storage from the University of the Center for Macroeconomic Studies of Buenos Aires (UCEMA).

He worked as an advisor at the former Ministry of Energy and Mining of the Argentine Nation and served as the National Director of Biofuels. He has authored various specialized papers, books, and book chapters on biofuels and energy. Moreover, he acts as a guest lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires and the Austral University.

Currently, Agustín Torroba serves as an International Specialist in Biofuels and Renewable Energies at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), a specialized institute of the Organization of American States (OAS). He also holds the position of Technical and Executive Secretary of the Pan-American Coalition of Liquid Biofuels (CPBIO).

Alexandre Alonso

General Chief, National Center for Agroenergy Research, EMBRAPA

Alexandre Andrade Lima

President, Association of Sugarcane Suppliers of the State of Pernambuco (AFCP)

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

Andréa Veríssimo

Head of International Relations, UNEM

Arnaldo Jardim

Federal Deputy, Chamber of Deputies, Brasilia, Brazil.

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César Miranda

Secretary of Economic Development

Daniel Lopes

Executive Vice President of Sustainability, Utilities & Business Development, Fueling Sustainability (FS)

Daniel Sarmento

Commercial Manager, Inpasa

Daniel Yamada

Business Development Manager, ICM

Ed Hubbard

General Counsel, Renewable Fuels Association

Flávio Augusto Portela

Agricultural Engineer, ESALQ/USP

Frederico Wagner França Tannure Filho

President, Associação dos Criadores de Suínos de Mato Grosso (Acrismat)

Gilberto Peralta

President, Airbus Brazil

Gonçalo Pereira

Titular Professor, UNICAMP

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Guilherme Nolasco

Executive President, UNEM

Rural producer, veterinarian with a long career in Agribusiness, Guilherme Linares Nolasco is executive president of the National Union of Corn Ethanol (UNEM). He has extensive experience as an executive and manager in the agricultural sector. He chaired the Mato Grosso Institute of Meat and the Institute of Agricultural Defense of Mato Grosso. He is currently Coordinator of the Bioenergy Commission of the Instituto Pensar Agro (IPA/ FPA), participates in the Productive Chambers of Sugar and Alcohol and Corn and Sorghum in the MAPA, is a founding member of the PCI Institute (Produce, Conserve and Include) and representative of the Corn Ethanol sector at the Ethanol Supply Monitoring Table coordinated by the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME).

Jayme Veríssimo de Campos

Senator, Federal Senate

João Irineu Medeiros

Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Stellantis

Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Post-graduate in Structural Engineering from UFMG and in Economic Engineering from Dom Cabral Foundation.

MBA in Business Management from Fundação Dom Cabral.

Post-MBA by Kellogg School of Management Chicago, Northwerstern University, USA From 1987 to 2012 he worked in Powertrain and Chassis Product Development of FIAT Latin America:

From 2013 to 2016 he worked at the Tech Center of Fiat Chrysler United States in the areas of V8 engine development, in strategic planning and in the area of vehicle regulation, homologation and compliance.

Currently at Stellantis he is Director of Product Compliance for South America

João Otávio de Assis Figueiredo

Research Leader, DATAGRO Livestock

Jorge Diego Giacomelli

2nd Administrative Director, Aprosoja

Laís Garcia

Head of Renewable Energy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil

Lilian Ferreira dos Santos

Deputy Secretary of Environmental Licensing and Water Resources, State Secretariat of Mato Grosso

Lucas Correa

General Manager of Business Development in Decarbonization, Wärtsilä Brasil

Marcela Anselmi

Manager of Environment and Energy Transition, National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC)

Maria Auxiliadora Nobre

RenovaBio Management Coordinator, Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP)

Marília Folegatti

Researcher, EMBRAPA

Mario Cacho

Director of Sales for Latin America in Grain Processing, IFF

Mario Murakami

Scientific Director, National Center for Energy and Materials Research (CNPEM)

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.

Miguel Ivan Lacerda

Analyst, EMBRAPA

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.

Paula Soares

Agribusiness Coordinator, Apex Brasil

Pedro Lupion

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

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 Piacenza

Business Development Manager, Novonesis

Rodrigo Guerra

Vice President, Federation of Industries of the State of Mato Grosso (FIEMT)

Rodrigo Lima

General Director, Agroícone

Zach Losordo

Applications Manager, Lallemand Brasil