Senior executive, consultant and academic with 30 years of experience in multiple sectors. Doctorate in Business Administration at Rennes School of Business, France. Production Engineer (UFRJ), with two MBAs (Fundação Dom Cabral and COPPEAD), and specialization courses at London Business School (Innovation & Leadership), Harvard (Negotiation), George Washington University (Business in a Political Age), Cambridge (Digital Disruption), Institute for Public Relations (Communication), UCLA (Innovation & Supply Chain), FGV (Board Member), LEC (Compliance, ESG), and FUNCEX (International Trade). Author of books on Strategy and Government Relations, and several articles published in Brazil and abroad. Since 2000 has been an invited professor at many MBAs at FGV. Creator, co-developer and coordinator of the first Government Relations MBA (launched by FGV in 2015) and the first Directory of Government Relations Professionals (ORIGEM, launched in 2019) in Latin America. Professional with solid career in the areas of Institutional & Government Relations, Strategy, Negotiation, and International Trade, working for companies such as Xerox, BMW, Philip Morris, Nokia, Telemar, Copersucar, Syngenta, Monsanto, Honda, Boticario, SCJohnson, Vale, Tigre, Ferrero, PTC, Mercado Livre, Gringo, Inteligov, Embrapa, Ipiranga, Patense, Mondelez and IHARA, among others. Member of ABRIG and IRELGOV, being elected one of the most admired professionals of Institutional & Government Relations in Brazil in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 by ORIGEM, and becoming part of its Hall of Fame since 2023. Winner of Marco Maciel Prize (ABRIG) in 2018, 2019 and 2021. Member of the Council for Sustainable Social Economic Development of the Presidency of the Republic. Board member at CNI, ABNT and FIESP. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Business and Management. Currently is CEO of ABRAMAT (Brazilian Association of Building Materials), a private sector association that comprehends over 50 companies and 400 factories in the country.