William
H. Dent, Jr. email
Depois de se formar em história pela Universidade
de Maryland, William Dent serviu o Peace Corps no Chile.
Ao retornar aos Estados Unidos, fez pós-gradução
na Universidade de Chicago, onde obteve um Mestrado
em Educação e MBA em Finanças.
Com o apoio da Ford Foundation, William Dent se mudou
para o Brasil para trabalhar como um consultor para
o BNDES, onde percebeu a necessidade de se treinar pequenos
e médios empresários e ajudou Roberto
Lima Netto a fundar o SEBRAE.
Posteriormente, William Dent trabalhou
como gerente de projetos no BID (Banco Interamericano
de Desenvolvimento), quando implementou vários
projetos inovadores no Brasil, República Dominicana,
Haiti e Costa Rica que somaram mais de US$2 bilhões
em investimentos. Durante a década de 90, fundou
e presidiu a empresa CD-ROM International, pioneira
na vendas de bases de dados bibliográficos dos
EUA e Europa (e.g., Medline) e serviços de telecomunicações
a aproximadamente 200 instituições em
todo o Brasil. No início de 2003, William Dent
fundou a Natural Partners, com apoio de Flavio Pinheiro,
Adam Tomasek e Ann McClellan, e hoje atua como Diretor
Executivo da organização. William Dent
reside em Washington, DC.
Rachel
Biderman Furriela
Ms. Furriela earned a Bachelor’s degree in Law
and a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences
from the University of São Paulo and also a Master’s
degree in International Law from American University
and since early 90s she has worked extensively with
non-governmental organizations, government agencies,
and universities in Brazil. Ms. Furriela has been advisor
to the São Paulo State Environment Secretary
from 1996 to 1998, member of the Brazilian Delegation
to the Sixth Conference on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany,
in 2001, coordinator of important seminars in Brazil
on environmental topics such as the United Nations-sponsored
International Seminar on Sustainable Development in
2002 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and coordinator of the
Brazilian Forum on Climate Change from 2001 to 2002.
In 1998 she also started working as a private consultant
to local law firms, environmental non-governmental organizations,
and multilateral agencies.
Ms. Furriela has taught environmental law in several
universities, and conducted seminar and training in
various government environmental agencies and non-governmental
institutions in Brazil. Ms. Furriela has
contributed to the work of important environmental non-governmental
organizations in Brazil such as IPSUS, Instituto Socio-Ambiental,
and SOS Mata Atlantica, and she is the author of several
articles and book chapters on various environmental
topics and of the book Democracy, Citizenship and Environmental
Protection, published in Portuguese in 2002.
Dirk Kloss
email
 Mr
Kloss grew up in West Germany. After leaving the University
of Marburg with a Bachelor's in Geography, Ethnology
and Communications, he worked for leading newspapers,
radio and TV stations in the USA, Germany and Hong Kong
as a correspondent, editor, and news anchor. Simultaneously,
he completed graduate studies at the University of Illinois
and Hamburg University with a Master's in Economic Geography.
In the early 90s Mr Kloss pursued research in Costa
Rica on debt-for-nature swaps and other innovative finance
mechanisms for the conservation of Latin America's tropical
forests, which in 1994 was published as the first German
book on this unfolding subject.
Over the following seven years Mr Kloss
worked in India, Vietnam, Laos, and China on developing
country assistance programmes in environment and rural
development for the German government, namely GTZ and
KfW (the German Bank for Reconstruction and Development),
as well as for an international consulting firm. In
2001 Mr Kloss retired from German development assistance
to put some of his own savings where his mouth had been
for so many years of work with poor farmers: planting
trees for long-term investment, coupled with environmental
stabilization and short-term management income. His
FSC-certified mixed plantation of sustainably managed,
high-end tropical timber in Panama established and growing
well, he returned as a Senior Advisor to the world of
international conservation finance.
On behalf of The Nature Conservancy and
a Conservation Finance Alliance of NGOs, bi- and multilateral
donor organisations, Mr Kloss developed training guides
on innovative mechanisms, and assisted protected areas
worldwide to apply them and become sustainable. He continues
to work as an independent advisor to UNDP, the World
Bank, and others.
Eugene Massey email
Mr. Massey graduated from Harvard Law School in 1967
and has practiced law with the Washington, DC-based
law firm Arent Fox since 1972. Mr. Massey specializes
in international energy transactions, with concentration
in the commercial and operational aspects of the liquefied
natural gas (LNG) trade. He has represented various
parties in LNG sales and transportation agreements and
has negotiated, drafted and reviewed a wide range of
legal documents relating to the constitution and financing
of major LNG projects. He has been a frequent speaker
at international gas conferences and written several
articles for journals with international circulation.
Prior to joining Arent Fox, he spent five years as a
lawyer for the U.S. Department of State in the Office
of the Legal Adviser, working initially on European
political and military affairs and then handling the
legislative and contract aspects of the U.S. Foreign
Assistance Program, including agricultural sales and
military sales under the Foreign Military Sales Program.
For the next two years he was counsel for the State
Department office responsible for international maritime
matters. In this capacity he acted as the U.S. representative
to the Legal Committee of what is now known as International
Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized U.N. agency
and represented the U.S. at international conferences
considering pollution, multimodal transport and codes
of conduct.
Mr. Massey has continued his maritime-related practice
at Arent Fox, representing U.S. and foreign clients
relating to pollution, pilotage, vessel safety and hazardous
cargo. He is a member of the Maritime Law Association
and has been active in its Hazardous and Noxious Substances
Committee with respect to issues affecting the transportation
of LNG. Mr. Massey served for 15 years as a member of
the editorial board of The Journal of Maritime Law and
Commerce.
In addition to his maritime and energy practice, Mr.
Massey has been actively engaged in international commercial
transactions, including international sales, investment
and joint venture transactions and has experience in
international litigation and arbitration.
Mr. Massey has been active in many community organizations.
He was a member of the Board of The Stone Ridge School
from 1989 to 1998, serving as chairman from 1993 to
1998. He has been active in the Washington D. C Rotary
club where her has served as Secretary of the club and
on the Board of Directors. He has headed up the club's
international service programs and remains active in
the club's World Service Committee. He also serves on
the board of Playing for Peace, a private initiative
to use basketball as a means of conflict resolution
in Northern Ireland and South Africa
Chris Parel email
Mr. Parel is a native of Arlington, Virginia. He earned
a BA at Amherst College and an MA in Economics from
Harvard. He was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship
to work on project analysis at BNDES, Brazil's national
development bank. He subsequently worked in Brazil for
McKinsey & Co. Management
Consultants and for the Jari and Tucurui Projects in
the Amazon region. He then moved to the Philippines
with FMC Corporation's agricultural chemicals division
as Business Planning Manager for the Asia operations.
Mr. Parel returned to the Washington area
to work at the World Bank where he has served for over
20 years. He entered the Bank as an Investment Officer
with the International Finance Corporation and then
moved to the IBRD where he worked in Planning and Budgeting
and the Venezula and Brazil country operations as Country
Officer. At the moment, Mr. Parel is a Public Sector
Management Specialist task managing a number of projects
primarily in Brazil.
Flavio C. Pinheiro email
Flavio Pinheiro reside em São Paulo, Brasil.
Se graduou em Ciências Moleculares pela Universidade
de São Paulo (USP). Obteve seu grau de mestre
em Políticas e Planejamento Urbano e Ambiental
pela Tufys University nos Estados Unidos, quando escreveu
sua tese sobre iniciativas empresariais voluntárias
e relatórios de sustentabilidade.
Flavio Pinheiro trabalhou na Agência de Proteção
Ambiental dos EUA (USEPA) de maio de 2000 a outubro
de 2001, tanto em Washington DC quando em Boston, onde
participou de projetos regionais e internacionais sobre
poluição atmosférica e mudanças
climáticas. Hoje se encontra em São Paulo,
onde, entre outras atividades, continua trabalhando
para a USEPA como subcontratado do Laboratório
Nacional de Energias Renováveis dos EUA (NREL)
para coordenação do projeto Estratégias
Ambientais Integradas para a Região Metropolitana
de São Paulo, que busca avaliar opções
tecnológicas e políticas para mitigar
as emissões atmosféricas neste grande
centro urbano. Desde 2002, Flavio Pinheiro vem colaborando
com William Dent, Jr. na criação da Natural
Partners e no início de suas operações
no Brasil. Flavio Pinheiro é hoje o representante
da Natural Partners no Brasil.
Adam Tomasek
email
 Mr.
Tomasek is a Senior Program Officer at the World Wildlife
Fund and directs ecoregion conservation programs in
New Guinea (PNG and Indonesia), Madagascar and the Miombo
woodlands of eastern and southern Africa. Over the past
three years he has developed and managed a multitude
of large-scale programs in Latin America, Asia/Pacific
and Africa, providing technical assistance, planning
and management support for ecoregional programs in areas
of biodiversity conservation strategies, policy analysis,
outreach and advocacy, capacity building and learning
mechanisms. He has worked extensively with multi- and
bi-lateral funding agencies, national governments, grassroots
NGOs and numerous dedicated and inspirational community
leaders and groups.
Prior to joining WWF, Mr. Tomasek worked as an agroforestry
extension trainer for the U.S. Peace Corps; forest ecologist
for the Bureau of Land Management; and conservation
biologist with Ecosystem Sciences International (a private
consulting firm). From 1995-1998, he was a Peace Corps
Volunteer in Paraguay, and thereafter co-founded Servicios
Ecoforestales Para Agricultores (a Paraguayan environmental
conservation NGO). Mr. Tomasek holds a M.S. in Environmental
Systems and a B.S. in Marine Biology.
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