Graduated in Agricultural Engineering from the Federal University of Viçosa. He has a Master’s and Doctorate from Montpellier, France. He worked at the INRA laboratories of Avignon and CIRAD in Montpellier. He specialized in remote sensing at the Center National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) in Toulouse. He has been an Embrapa researcher since 1987, initially working at the Cerrado Agricultural Research Center (CPAC). He was coordinator of the Natural Resources Area of ​​Embrapa Cerrados, Executive Secretary of the Natural Resources Program of Embrapa and head of Research and Development at Embrapa Cerrados. During the period from 1993 to 2006, he was the national technical coordinator of the Agricultural Zoning of Climate Risks of the Ministry of Agriculture, and in that period he created and coordinated the national network of agrometeorology. He coordinated several projects in a national network and was Chief of Embrapa Informática Agropecuária from 2005 to 2009. He coordinates projects in the area of ​​climate change and its impacts on agriculture. He created and coordinated the climate and agriculture subnet of the MCT & I climate network until 2013. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change. In 2011, he was Secretary of Climate Change and Environmental Quality of the Ministry of Environment. Professor of the Master's Degree in Agribusiness at FGV EESP. He is currently a 1D Fellow of CNPq.

Graduated in Agronomic Engineering from Unesp and holds a postgraduate from Esalq - USP. She is currently the manager of the Center for Agribusiness at FGV’s Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV EESP). Previously, she served as head of the Technical Advisory and Special Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Executive Advisor to the Brazilian Agribusiness Association (ABAG) and producer of the Rural Panel Program, a weekly talk show hosted by Canal Rural.

Coordinator of the Sustainable Finance Research Program at the Center for Sustainability Studies associated with FGV’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP). She holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from PUC-SP, an MBA in Finance from IBMEC, a master's degree and a PhD in Business Administration from FGA/USP's PPGA.

He holds a doctorate in Public Administration and Government from FGV’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP). He holds a Master’s Degree in Law, in the area of ​​Legal and Environmental Sciences, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He is currently an FGV researcher, and coordinates the Environmental Policy and Economics Program of the Sustainability Studies Center of FGV EAESP. He has been a lawyer since 1999, and has experience in Environmental, Business and Health areas. He participated in the process of elaborating subnational public policies on climate change and the elaboration of business proposals for public policies for a low carbon economy. He has coordinated and acted in several projects, among them, the studies commissioned by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade and the National Water Agency to support the process of development of mitigation policies and adapting to climate change. The focus is on public policies, mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change and climate change regulations at the international, national and subnational levels.

He holds a degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the University Center of FEI, and a Master’s degree in Agribusiness from FGV’s Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV EESP).