Horizon for the Just Transition: from 2021 to the future
MONDAY 14/12/2020
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN MINING TERRITORIES
09h00 – 10h45 (BR) / 13h00 – 14h45 (CET)
Leonardo Amaral Diniz Medina
Specialist in the Articulation for Economic Development and Co-Coordinator of the Productive Reconversion Program in Mined Territories, Support Service for Micro and Small Enterprises of Minas Gerais (SEBRAE-MG)
Graduated in Administration, specialist in Strategic Business Management at PUC-MG and Project Management at FGV. He has worked for more than 12 years at SEBRAE / MG, having worked in the financial, strategic areas and in the Management Training School. Currently he is part of the team of the Articulation Unit for Economic Development, leading the articulation of projects that operate in regions of environmental disaster and is one of the coordinators of the Productive Reconversion Program in Mined Territories.
Anderson Costa Cabido
Specialist in Economic Development, SEBRAE-MG and Former President of AMIB - Association of Mining Municipalities of Brazil
Anderson was a mayor of Congonhas / MG for two consecutive terms (2005-2012). Master in Administration from UFMG and Specialization in Local Economic Development from the International Labor Organization. He was President of AMIB - Association of Mining Municipalities of Brazil, founder and president of CODAP, Brazil's first public consortium. He was President of the Association of Historic Cities of Minas Gerais. Career employee at Sebrae / MG, having been its Director between the years 2015 to 2018.
Marcus Temburg
Head of the Department of Development and Landscape Planning, Construction and Housing, Rhein-Kreis Neuss
Academic Studies:
Spatial Planning at the Dortmund Technical University (October 1992 until July 1997). Final degree: Diplom-Ingenieur.
Occupational history:
August 1997 until August 1999: RWE Power Cologne (Mining enterprise in the Rhenish Lignite Mining Area), Department for Resettlement
Since September 1999: Rhein-Kreis Neuss
Since May 2013: Head of the Department of Development and Landscape Planning, Building and Housing
Since 2019: Head of the Staff Section for Structural Change
Thiago de Carvalho Zakrzewski
Commissioner for Climate Protection and Sustainability, Department of Development, Landscape Planning, Construction and Housing, Rhein-Kreis Neuss
Academic Studies:
Regional sciences of Latin America, Social Sciences and Cultural and Media studies at the Universities of Eichstätt (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), Bogotá (Javeriana), Rio de Janeiro (PUC) and Cologne (Universität zu Köln).
Occupational history:
Since November 2017: Rhein-Kreis Neuss
November 2017 – December 2019: Coordinator for Municipal Development Policy
Since January 2020: Commissioner for Climate Protection and Sustainability
Mariana Pedrosa Nahas
Socio-environmental Manager and Researcher at the Center for Studies in Applied Economic and Environmental Modeling (NEMEA) from Cedeplar-UFMG (Regional Planning and Development Center of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of Minas Gerais – UFMG)
Socio-environmental Manager with experience in coordinating multidisciplinary teams and in the integrated management of socio-environmental projects and development of territories. PhD student and Master in Economic Sciences at the Center for Development and Regional Planning / CEDEPLAR at UFMG. Researcher at the Nucleus of Studies in Economic and Environmental Applied Modelling (NEMEA), with the focus in the Environment, currently working with the theme of Scenarios of Deceleration of Mining and its impacts on the Economy of Minas Gerais between the years 2015 and 2050. Specialist in data analysis, including econometric modelling of spatial data, evaluation and monitoring of high socio-environmental impact projects related to the environment, sanitation, mining and regional development.
AWARDS:
-2nd place in the master category of the 35th BNDES Economy Award, with the theme: Mining and Productive Dynamics - Effects on the Productive Structure of Minas Gerais Mining Municipalities between 2000 and 2010 - using a spatial panel data model;
-Winner of the MundoGEO Connect 2019 award, Mapping and Registration category;
-Wiler and Winner of the Best Project in BIg Data, GIS, IoT and Block Chain in the Water Innovation Lab WILBrasil, Northeast edition, 2019;
- Best Practices in Local Management Award 2012 by the PAC Arrudas Project (UN / CAIXA).
Marco Saverio Ristuccia
Senior Economist and Project Manager of the Initiative “Toward a Just Transition: An Opportunity for Minas Gerais”, FGV Europe
Marco Ristuccia joined FGV in 2011 and is currently project coordinator at FGV Europe, where he works in infrastructure and green technologies for sustainable development. Prior to that, he worked as a project coordinator at FGV Projetos, focusing on Smart Cities and technological innovation, infrastructure and utility management and financing, PPP projects, corporate social responsibility and structuring company-territory relationships for “value creation” in the energy sector. Prior to that, he worked as an analyst in the economic and financial assessment of the investment risk profile for ENI, Dexia-Crediop, BNL-Paribas and Invitalia, and in the technical consulting sector in Italy (Éupolis Lombardia, Quesire srl, Struttura srl, Cles srl, Italian Consiglio per le Scienze Sociali, Federculture, Openeconomics). Master in Economic Sciences and graduated in Economics from the Universitá La Sapienza of Rome (Italy). Specialized in Probabilistic Mathematics for financial risk control.
MONDAY 14/12/2020
Brazil-Germany Cooperation in Just Transition Projects
11h00 – 12h45 (BR) / 15h00 – 16h45 (CET)
Juliano Alves Pinto
Deputy Secretary for the Promotion of Investments and Production Chains, State of Minas Gerais - Economic Development Secretariat
Juliano Alves Pinto has been a career diplomat since 2007, currently deputy-secretary for Investment Promotion and Productive Chains in the Minas Gerais State Government. As a diplomat, he served as vice-consul of Brazil in San Francisco for 4 years, in addition to DCM of Brazil in Tirana, Albania, for 3 years. Before his mission in the Government of the State of Minas Gerais, he led the project "Diplomacy of Innovation" in Belo Horizonte, connecting the innovation ecosystems to international partners abroad.
Marcelo Ladeira Moreira da Costa
Mining, Energy and Logistics Policy Superintendent of Minas Gerais State Secretariat for Economic Development (SEDE)
Graduado em Direito e em Administração Pública. Mestre em Administração Pública. Superintendente de Política Minerária, Energética e Logística da Secretaria de Estado de Desenvolvimento Econômico de Minas Gerais.
Nadine Gerner
Senior Researcher, Strategic River Basin Management Department, Emschergenossenschaft und Lippeverband
Nadine Gerner holds a diploma in biology from the University of Frankfurt and is specialized in freshwater biology and ecotoxicology. She conducted a PhD at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, where she investigated the ecological effects of the Canadian oil sands development, applying biological indicators for aquatic macroinvertebrate species. In 2014, Nadine Gerner joined Emschergenossenschaft & Lippeverband, a public sector water management association located in Essen in the German Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr metropolitan area). She works in the department of River Basin Management. The restoration of the Emscher river and its tributaries is the central topic of her work. In this context, she focuses on water quality of the restored streams, on the ecosystem services they provide, on water related challenges due to climate change and on improving governance regimes in water management. During school, Nadine Gerner spent three years in Brazil, attending the Humboldt college in São Paulo. She speaks German, English and Portuguese.
João Teixeira Soares
Business Manager, EULA Information Technology
Broad experience as entrepreneur, manager, consultant, architect and software developer. Management of large teams with more than 100 developers. Participation in major international software development projects with more than 1,000 man/years effort. Professional software development since 1983 in key sectors of IT, such as technical and administrative systems, databases, computer graphics, CAD/CAM, real-time systems, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, etc.
Areas of expertise: Software Development, Design Thinking, Technology Entrepreneurship. Courses: Design Thinking for Business Innovation at SAP Germany (2013); Technology Entrepreneurship at Management Science & Engineering, Stanford
University (2013); and Production Management at TU München (2006).
Alexandre Valadares Mello
Director of Relations with Associates and Municipalities, Brazilian Mining Association (IBRAM);
Prior to his position at IBRAM, Alexandre assumed the following roles: Superintendent of Sustainability, Communication and Corporate Affairs for the Vallourec Group (Brazil - Steel, Mining and Forestry division), (2008 to 2017); President of the Minas Gerais Silviculture Association - AMS (2016 to 2018); President of the Minas Gerais Eurochamber of Commerce (2015 to 2017); President of the France Brazil Chamber of Commerce of Minas Gerais (2014 to 2016); Civil Engineer from UFMG; Master in ‘Climate Change and Sustainable Development’ from De Montfort University / England; Coordinator of the Climate Change Committee of the Brazilian Environmental Management Committee - CB-38 of ABNT (ISO Norms for Climate Change); Climate Change Consultant for the ‘United Nations Industrial Development Organization - UNIDO on issues related to ISO standards for energy management and climate change; Brazilian delegate at international meetings: ISO, COP and UN; Specialist in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Projects - Clean Development Mechanisms - by JICA / Japan; Specialist in Quality and Environmental Auditing by JICA / Japan; Specialist in Implementation of Environmental Management System - ISO 14001 by Ryerson University and BRI / Canada; Specialist in Economic Engineering from Fundação Dom Cabral / PUC; Specialist in Cleaner Production at the National Center for Clean Technologies - RS.
Claudia Diniz
Executive Director, Mining Hub
Executive with solid experience in innovation, project management and intellectual property, with a history of work for the mining industry, having already worked in two of the largest mining companies in the world. Chemical engineer with master's and doctorate in Mineral Technology, with extensive experience abroad. MBA from FDC. She currently serves as executive director of MiningHub, where she serves as the world's first open innovation hub in the mining sector. In addition, she is pleased to be one of the founders and director of the Women in Mining Brasil movement. Mother, woman, professional and happy! Find out more about her at Linkedin.
Marco Contardi
Project manager, FGV Europe
Marco Contardi joined FGV in 2015 and is currently project manager at FGV Europe, where he works in the areas of infrastructure and sustainable development, Smart Cities and sustainability. Prior to that, he worked at FGV Projetos, coordinating urban development, social responsibility and PPPs projects for public services. He began his career at the German company Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and was a senior consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Latin American Development Bank (CAF), where he supported the drafting of the PPP Law and the PPP Pilot Program from the Federal Government of Brazil on the North-South Railroad project. Marco also worked as a senior researcher at the Lombardy Region Research Institute in Italy, where he conducted research in the areas of territorial development, climate change and infrastructure financing. Master in Economics from Luigi Bocconi University of Milan, Italy. He has completed courses at the World Bank on Infrastructure and Development and Financial Analysis for Infrastructure Projects and at Partnership UK (UK PPP) on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the United Kingdom.
TUESDAY 15/12/2020
FINANCING DEVELOPMENT FOR JUST TRANSITION
09h00 – 10h30 (BR) / 13h00 – 14h30 (CET)
Susana Moreira
Oil and Gas Specialist, The World Bank
Susana is an Oil and Gas Specialist and has been with the World Bank for over 8 years, working both in mining and oil and gas sector projects. Previously she was a consultant working on energy, political rights in Africa and public relations. She holds a PhD in International Studies, a MA in Pacific International Affairs and a Bachelors in International Relations. She is fluent in 5 languages, including Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Her expertise and current project activities include:
• Co-leading the “Decarbonizing Natural Gas Using Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Technology” study commissioned by the World Bank in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Energy Agency (IEA);
• Co-leading the World Bank’s Climate-Smart Mining Initiative, which aims to support resource-rich developing countries to benefit from the increasing demand for strategic minerals for the clean energy transition, while effectively decarbonizing and reducing the material footprint of their mining sector;
• Managing holistic support to governments on mineral sector governance, including crafting strong oil and gas, and mining sector policies, laws and regulations;
• Capacity building (training on mining and oil and gas policy and regulations and institutional reforms) for high level government officials, parliamentarian, Civil Society Organizarions (CSO), etc;
• Support towards the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in resource-rich countries;
• Contributing to knowledge products on various areas, such as blue hydrogen, natural gas markets in Latin America, Mining Sector Deep Dive in Uganda and Suriname’s mining sector competitiveness.
Countries/ regions: Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, Kenya, Mauritania, Uganda
Silvio Lima
Diretor de Corporate Affairs, Appian Capital
Silvio Lima é Diretor de Assuntos Corporativos, Pessoas e SSMA do Grupo Appian Brazil, um fundo de investimento privado focado em mineração. Silvio tem mais de 16 anos de experiência nas indústrias de mineração, metais e aeronáutica. Esteve envolvido com projetos complexos de engajamento em ambientes multi-stakeholder lidando com governo, setor público, setor privado, terceiro setor e com o relacionamento com comunidades.
Antes de se juntar ao Grupo Appian, Silvio Lima teve posições executivas na Accenture Strategy Consulting, servindo clientes globais da indústria de mineração na área de Assuntos Corporativos. Silvio foi responsável pela área de Performance Social na Anglo American, servindo tanto ao Sistema Minas-Rio quanto às operações de Níquel. Fez, também, parte da diretoria executiva da Kinross Brasil.
Silvio é Engenheiro de Controle e Automação pela UMFG, é Mestre em Engenharia Aeronáutica pelo Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) e possui MBA pela Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University).
Sarah Laine de Castro
Coordinator of Special Projects for Municipalities, Development Bank of Minas Gerais (BDMG)
A career employee at the Development Bank of Minas Gerais (BDMG), she has a degree in mechanical engineering, with a postgraduate degree in environmental management, production administration, an MBA and a master's degree in finance.
For the past four years, she has been working on proposing solutions for strengthening and economic transformation in mined territories.
Joana Sarmento Coelho
Head of public sector operations in Brazil, European Investment Bank (EIB)
Joana Sarmento Coelho, Portuguese national with 16 years of service in the banking system, has European experience, in Africa and Latin America. She is currently the head of operations for the European Investment Bank - the Bank of the European Union - for the public sector in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, being located in Luxembourg.
Professional experience:
-03/2017 – present: head of public sector operations in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay for the European Investment Bank;
-01/2013 – 02/2017: Investment Banking Director - Banco Único, Bank in Mozambique;
-03/2008–12/2012: Financial Analyst - Banco Efisa, Investment Bank in Portugal;
-01/2005–03/2008: Credit Analyst - Eurohypo, German Bank
Education:
-2015: Post-Graduation in Management, INDEG-ISCTE, Portugal
-2004: University Diploma in Economics, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE), Portugal
Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish.
Marco Saverio Ristuccia
Senior Economist and Project Manager of the Initiative “Toward a Just Transition: An Opportunity for Minas Gerais”, FGV Europe
Marco Ristuccia joined FGV in 2011 and is currently project coordinator at FGV Europe, where he works in infrastructure and green technologies for sustainable development. Prior to that, he worked as a project coordinator at FGV Projetos, focusing on Smart Cities and technological innovation, infrastructure and utility management and financing, PPP projects, corporate social responsibility and structuring company-territory relationships for “value creation” in the energy sector. Prior to that, he worked as an analyst in the economic and financial assessment of the investment risk profile for ENI, Dexia-Crediop, BNL-Paribas and Invitalia, and in the technical consulting sector in Italy (Éupolis Lombardia, Quesire srl, Struttura srl, Cles srl, Italian Consiglio per le Scienze Sociali, Federculture, Openeconomics). Master in Economic Sciences and graduated in Economics from the Universitá La Sapienza of Rome (Italy). Specialized in Probabilistic Mathematics for financial risk control.
TUESDAY 15/12/2020
JUST TRANSITION: ROADMAP FOR 2021
11h00 – 12h00 (BR) / 15h00 – 16h00 (CET)
Cesar Cunha Campos
Director, FGV Europe
Cesar Cunha Campos has a degree in Civil Engineering from Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), a master’s degree in Business Administration from London Business School and a PhD in Transportation Planning from Technische Universität Wien, Austria. He has been a consultant since 1975, heading and integrating several projects in economics, engineering, and finance.
Cesar Cunha Campos has also developed projects for top Brazilian private and public corporations, especially feasibility studies for raising funds with major banks and development agencies (such as BNDES, IBRD, IDB, and OECD) and undertook a number of international projects. Since 2017, he has been the director of FGV Europe, responsible for the relations with the European private sector and relevant players from public sector. From 2003-2018, he was the executive director of FGV Projetos, the technical advisory unit of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), where he coordinated a team of more than 300 specialists working in various areas of knowledge, such as economy and finance, administration and public policy.
Dirk Augustin
Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rio de Janeiro Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rio de Janeiro
Dirk Augustin has been Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rio de Janeiro since July 2020. After studying journalism, American studies and public law in the 1990s in Mainz and joining the international service, he was able to gain experience in Brazil at the beginning of his career as a press officer in São Paulo. Other stays abroad took him as Deputy Ambassador to Yangon / Myanmar and as head of the political department in New Delhi / India. In recent years, he has worked at the Federal Ministry of External Relations headquarters in Berlin, first as head of the South Asia department and then as head of civil dialogue and public relations.
Agnes Maria de Aragão da Costa
Head of Special Advisory on Regulatory Affairs, Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME)
Agnes Maria de Aragão da Costa is Head of the Special Advisory on Regulatory Affairs, with a specialty in Energy and Mining Economies. He has been working at MME for 15 years, recommending and formulating public policies. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economic Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a master's degree in Energy from the University of São Paulo (USP). Servant of the career of Specialist in Public Policy and Government Management. He is currently a member of Petrobras' Fiscal Council. He was a member of the Board of Directors of CEAL, CEPISA and Norte Energia and a member of the Fiscal Council of Eletrobras.
Fernando Passalio de Avelar
Deputy-Secretary of Economic Development of the State of Minas Gerais - Economic Development Secretariat (SEDE)
Fernando Passalio de Avelar is from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Graduated in Business Administration and Management of Financial Institutions from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, he has a post-graduate degree in Government Auditing from Universidade Gama Filho. He joined the State Treasury Department - State Revenue Service in 2008. Currently, he is the Deputy Secretary of State for Economic Development of Minas Gerais.
Teodomiro Diniz Camargos
Vice-President, Federation of Industries of the State of Minas Gerais (FIEMG)
Civil engineer, President of Construtora Diniz Camargos Ltda, he has been vice-president of Fiemg since 2002. He was president of the Chamber of Construction Industry (CIC) of Fiemg from 2001 to March 2017, of Sinduscon-MG in the periods 1998/2001 and 2001/2003, of Seconci -MG 1996/1998, and director of the Brazilian Chamber of the Construction Industry (CBIC) 1998/2003, among other positions. A work aimed at revitalizing historic heritage, its construction company, among dozens of works carried out, transformed commercial buildings in the center of the capital of Minas Gerais into residential condominiums with a total of 319 units. Under his management, Sinduscon was one of those responsible for implementing the Brazilian Habitat Quality and Productivity Program (PBQP-H) in Minas Gerais. Ahead of CIC-Fiemg, he created the collective construction project, developing in the first edition the requalification project of Praça Raul Soares, and in the second edition the requalification project of the Belo Horizonte ring road, created the Technological Center for the Construction Industry (Ceticon) and Minascon, the big event in the sector. He holds several titles and commendations, including the Wady Simão medal, conferred by Sinduscon, the "Legislative Merit", from the Belo Horizonte City Council and the "Classist Leadership Medal", conferred by Sinaee-MG and Abinee.
Take a look at the Short CV's and photos from the past webinars:
1st Virtual Seminar - Just Transition and Development Models - PDF
2nd Virtual Seminar - Regulation and Governance Models for Just Transition in Mining Sector - PDF
3rd Virtual Seminar - Mining & Post Mining Sustainable Landscape - PDF
4th Virtual Seminar - Mining 4.0 and Territorial Technological Development - PDF
5th Virtual Seminar - Logistics for Economic Sustainable Development - PDF
6th Virtual Seminar - Energy Transition and Sustainable Mining - PDF