Measuring What Matters—Aligning For Impact
Speakers
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Beto Veríssimo is a senior research and co-founder of Imazon, an NGO think-and-do tank based in the Brazilian Amazon and founded in 1990. He holds a Master’a degree in Ecology from The Pennsylvania State University (USA) and graduate degree in Agriculture Engineer from the Federal Rural University of the Brazilian Amazon. He has published more than 170 scientific and technical articles and 25 books on conservation, natural resources management and public policies. His work has helped created about 25 million hectares of Conservation Units in the Brazilian Amazon and support forest management for more than 7 million hectares. In the last years he has worked on different strategies to reduce the level of deforestation and forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon. He is also an AVINA Fellow and Ashoka Senior Fellow. In 2010 Beto received the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2014 he was selected among the top 100 most influential people in Brazil by the Época Magazine. In 2015 he received the Globo Newspaper Brazilian Award on sustainability
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Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Florida Ice and Farm Company
Gisela Sánchez is the Director of Corporate Affairs at Florida Ice & Farm Co. Before joining FIFCO, she worked as a consultant for governments, NGOs and companies in Central America in the areas of competitiveness and corporate social responsibility. In 2006, she published 10 Cases on Corporate Social Responsibility Good Practices, and The Competitiveness Potential of Guatemala. Between 2001 and 2003, she worked for the AVINA Foundation in Latin America as strategic initiatives manager supporting the development of social and environmental leaders in the region. Before joining AVINA, she worked as a researcher and project coordinator for the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development at INCAE. Sánchez is an industrial engineer and has an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. She is a Fellow of the Central American Leadership (CALI) and she recently received the Stephan Schmidheiny Innovation on Sustainability Award. She is a laureate of the John Mc Nulty Prize and currently she is the Vice President of AMCHAM. Gisela has been named twice as part of the 50 most influential women in Central America by Forbes Magazine.
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Minister, Ministry of Planning
José Molinas Vega holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1997). From 1998 to 2001 he was a development and macroeconomics professor both at the college and graduate levels at the Catholic University of Asunción (Paraguay), where he also headed the Masters programme in economics. Starting in 2002 he chaired the Development Institute (Instituto de Desarrollo) until he joined the World Bank in 2005.
His research fields include social capital, rural development, political economics of social services, economy of education, poverty analysis and applied macroeconomics. He has published articles and book chapters on rural cooperatives, macroeconomics and poverty, public policy and social capital.
His work has been published in World Development Journal, Political Science Journal, Economy and Society Journal, Coyuntura Económica, Series Desarrollo Productivo (CEPAL), and book chapters published by Edward Elgar Press, Eudeba, Mundi-Prensa, and IADB.
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Chairperson, Viva Trust
Roberto Artavia is Chairman of VIVA Trust and of Fundación Latinoamérica Posible. He´s also President of the Board of INCAE Business School; Vice Chairman of the Social Progress Imperative and co-author of the 2013 report of the Social Progress Index. He was the founding Director of the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development and of Viva Trust’s Center for Knowledge Exchange, a knowledge management organization for social and environmental entrepreneurs. President of Marviva Foundation in Panama and Victoria Foundation in Nicaragua. He also serves as Director of CINDE, the investment promotion agency of Costa Rica. Professor Artavia has a doctorate from Harvard´s Business School of Business, an MBA from INCAE Business School, and a degree in Naval Engineering from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point.
