International expert on sustainable finance and corporate sustainability. Founder and CEO of the London-based Granito Group, an award-winning financial services firm that advances the sustainable economy through strategy consulting, financial advisory, and policy & research. Invited Full Professor of Sustainable Finance at NOVA School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), in Portugal. He holds over 15 years of experience in government and international organizations working with foreign affairs and economic cooperation.

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), United Nations University (Senior Scholar), 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 four books, including “Paradiplomacy: Cities and States as Global Players” (Oxford University Press) and multiple book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. Nominated Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (2017), and Young Leader by the Government of Quebec in Canada (2011). Columnist for Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil) and Expresso (Portugal), and weekly commentator for TSF news radio (Portugal). His views have been featured in the Financial Times, CNBC, Fortune, Quartz, Arab News, and the World Economic Forum. He has been featured in the press as “one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable finance” (Globo).