Marcelo Furtado

Marcelo Furtado is the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) and partner at ZScore a traceability platform for environmental assets using blockchain technology. Board Chair at World Resources Institute (WRI) Brazil. Board member of Conectas Human Rights and member of the sustainability committee at Duratex SA. Executive director of Alana Family Foundation from July 2018 to March 2020 and co-founder of Believe.Earth. Served from 2016 to June 2018 as the facilitator of the Brazilian Coalition on Climate Forest and Agriculture, a multistakeholder forum with representatives from academia, business and civil society to implement a just and sustainable a low carbon economy. Chemical engineer by training with a master degree in renewable energy. Climate, Energy and Land Use professional with nearly 30 years of experience as an activist committed to advancing sustainability and social justice through innovation and public mobilization. Lemann Fellow and a member of the Yale World Fellow program. Executive Director at Arapyaú Institute a family foundation that promotes sustainability, justice, education and political advocacy from 2013 to 2017. Executive Director of Greenpeace Brazil from 2008 to 2013. Head of the forest, climate & energy, toxics and oceans campaign in Brazil from 2005 to 2008. At Greenpeace International (1990 to 2005) served as policy adviser on Climate & Energy and Industrial Pollution; coordinated the Latin America and later the global Toxic Trade Campaign on the promotion of clean technology and the worldwide ban on hazardous waste trade. Before joining, the non-profit sector worked in the chemical industry and as a consultant on the field of technology and innovation.