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We are people diverse in knowledge, life experience, origin, ideology and training. What unites us is the cause and the conviction that there are possible paths for the harmonious development of the Amazon and the Cerrado.
Corporate Governance
Deliberative Council
Steve Schwartzman
Steve Schwartzman is the Senior Director for Tropical Forest Policy at the Environmental Defense Fund and has been working for over 20 years in the Brazilian Amazon with indigenous peoples and local communities, government, scientists and the private sector to...
Luiz Antônio Martinelli
Luiz Antônio Martinelli is a professor at the University of São Paulo, allocated at the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (Cena, acronym in Portuguese), on the Piracicaba campus. He is experienced in ecology, with emphasis on the dynamics of tropical...
Paulo Artaxo
Paulo Artaxo is a physicist with a master’s degree in Nuclear Physics and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics from the University of São Paulo (USP). He has worked at NASA, University of Antwerp (Belgium), Lund (Sweden) and Harvard University. Currently, he is a...
Fiscal Council
Mário Prestes Monzoni Neto
Ph.D. in Public Administration and Government from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EAESP). Master’s degree in Economic Policy Management from the Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York, USA. Master’s degree in Public Finance...
Adolpho José Melfi
Adolpho José Melfi has a degree in Geology and Ph.D. in Geosciences from the University of São Paulo (USP). He is currently a professor at the University of São Paulo. He worked as Associate Professor at the French Universities of Strasbourg, Poitiers,...
Reynaldo Luiz Victória
Reynaldo Luiz Victória has a degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP) and received a Certificate of Use of the N-15 in Agricultural Research from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He holds a Master’s degree in Nuclear Energy...
Honorary Board
Marina Silva
Marina Silva is a historian and environmentalist. She was elected a senator in 1994 and re-elected in 2002. Ms. Silva was the Brazilian Minister of Environment of from 2003 to 2008. For her performance in favor of the environment, she received several international...
Board of Directors
Paulo Moutinho
Paulo Moutinho has a Ph.D. in Ecology and studies the causes of deforestation in the Amazon and its consequences for biodiversity, climate change and inhabitants of the region. He has worked in the Brazilian Amazon for over 20 years and is an IPAM co-founder, where...
Gabriela Savian
Deputy Director of Public Policy at IPAM, Ms. Savian has a degree in Agronomy from the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC) in 2007, with a specialization in Economics and Environment from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in 2009. She worked as a...
Lucimar Souza
Lucimar Souza holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Pará (2002) and a master's degree in Latin American Studies with a focus in Tropical Conservation and Development from the University of Florida (2009). Ms. Souza works mainly in...
Patricia Pinho
Deputy Science Director at IPAM, holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of São Carlos, a PhD in Human Ecology from the University of California Davis and a postdoctoral degree from the University of Michigan and the National Institute for...
Vitor dos Santos Amancio
Chief Financial Officer, he is an economist graduated from the University of Brasília (UnB) and holds a Master's degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) and an MBA in Behavioral Economics from ESPM (Superior School of Marketing). He...
Ane Alencar
Ane Alencar is IPAM’s Director of Science. She holds a degree in Geography from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), a Masters in Environmental Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System from the University of Boston, and a Ph.D. in Forest Resources and...
André Guimarães
André Guimarães has a degree in Agronomy from the University of Brasília (UnB) and was Vice-President of Development at Conservation International (CI) Americas, where he supervised the operation in ten Latin American countries. Mr. Guimarães also founded and...
Technical Coordination
Paulo Brando
Paulo Monteiro Brando holds Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Ecology from the University of Florida and a degree in Forestry Engineering from the University of São Paulo with a stay at the McGill University. In addition to being an IPAM researcher, he is an accredited...
Edivan Carvalho
Edivan Carvalho has an agricultural technician degree from the Escola Agrotécnica Federal de Castanhal [Castanhal Federal Agrotechnical School] (1994). He is a specialist in Agrarian Systems Analysis and Diagnosis – INCRA / LUMIAR PROJECT (1997) and a teaching...
Jarlene Gomes
Jarlene Gomes holds a teaching degree in Geography from the Federal University of Acre. She is currently a researcher and coordinator at the IPAM office in Acre, where she works in debates about public policies on family agriculture and its sustainable development...