Maria Gabriela da Rocha Oliveira currently serves as Director of Renewable Energy and Government Relations at Swiss company Atlas Agro, where she leads power procurement and public affairs strategies for the development of green hydrogen-based nitrogen fertilizer plants in Brazil and the US. Prior to joining Atlas Agro, she held senior roles at Shell, where she built and led the renewable generation business in Brazil, developing a utility-scale solar and offshore wind portfolio. She also worked at First Solar, driving market expansion in Latin America, and at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, where she led research and advisory projects focused on low-carbon investment in emerging markets. Gabriela holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is passionate about advancing Brazil’s green reindustrialization and promoting gender diversity in the clean energy sector.

As Academic Relations Program Manager at Swissnex in Brazil. He 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 in Switzerland, 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.