Anderson Barcelos Rocha Braga is a Mechanical Engineer with a Master’s degree in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and a graduate of the SENAI “Swiss-Brazilian” School (SENAI Suíço-Brasileira Paulo Ernesto Tolle) in Metal-Mechanics. Since 2012, he has worked with SENAI, gaining extensive experience in South-South Cooperation projects across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, including countries such as Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, South Africa, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe. As Industry Relationship Coordinator in the Santo Amaro District of São Paulo, he develops technical and technological solutions to improve industrial productivity, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, while also designing customized training programs for workforce development in fields such as metal mechanics, automotive technology, electronics, food processing, IT, management, and metallurgy. Anderson is also a veteran participant in international TVET competitions, including WorldSkills Americas 2012, São Paulo Skills 2013, WorldSkills São Paulo 2015, Abu Dhabi 2017, Kazan 2019, and Lyon 2024.

As Academic Relations Program Manager, Pedro helps connect universities, think tanks, research institutions, professors and researchers to establish, and further develop, science and technology partnerships. He holds a PhD in Political Science from UNICAMP and spent time as Visiting Researcher first at the University of Zurich and later at the University of Fribourg. Since then he has been working closely with Latin Americanists from Switzerland and abroad.

Letícia Caritá is the Deputy Head of the Swiss Business Hub Brazil and has more than 10 years of experience in international business development, building bridges between Brazil and Switzerland. She has a Bachelor Degree in International Relations from the University of São Paulo and MBA in Project Management from Getúlio Vargas Foundation.