Short Bio
I have a degree in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina and a specialty in Sustainability from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. I have been working in the water and sanitation sector for 12 years. I started as a technical consultant at the Brazilian Association of Private Water and Sanitation Companies and currently I coordinate the corporate sustainability area at GS Inima Brasil. I have already worked as National and State Councilor for Water Resources, I was technically responsible for several studies in the sector such as the SFD Report of Brazilian cities (Manaus, AM and São Paulo, SP) and the Panorama of the Private Initiative in the Water and Sanitation sector in Brazil . I participated in the organization of several High Level Panels in the academic and business sector, including the National Water Meeting, the World Water Forum, among others. I have already acted in community engagement actions to promote rural sanitation and WASH educational actions.
Motivation/Commitment to the GSC
The feeling of acting for the collective and for the common good has always driven my professional choices and I´m very happy with the possibility of contributing through SuSanA to the construction of a society, current and future, where all people, without distinction, have access to sustainable sanitation. I believe in the power of networks and alliances and I see the great potential to expand the excellence of the work done by the individual and organizational members of SuSanA in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in light of the enormous challenges that our local community still faces in achieving advances in WASH.
Is there anything else you would like to say to the SuSanA community?
The protection of the common goods of humanity, such as the health of people and nature, promoted by the WASH sector, can only be achieved through cooperation. There are several cultural, social, technical and financial challenges that demand pedagogical processes, with qualified information, exchanges of experiences and engaged people who can inspire and move networks capable of leading the necessary changes. It is in this sense that I see the potential that SuSanA has, with its global reach and its ability to mobilize people and organizations, with the technical and organizational rigor necessary to make collective actions a reality with efficient and transparent actions. The regional representations are an important part of the mobilization strategy and, therefore, I am available to contribute from Brazil.
