Climate change is the defining feature of our time

Eduardo Paes is the Mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro. He was the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 2009 to 2012, re-elected for a second term from 2013 to 2016, and returning elected again in 2021.

Founder and current chairman of FINVEST Holdings, Luis Claudio, is a legendary personality of the Brazilian financial sector. He’s spent the last 35 years building up successful companies such as RB Capital, Rio Bravo Investimentos, and UBF Seguros that changed the investment landscape in the country. Luis Claudio holds a Civil Engineering degree from PUC-Rio (Brazil) and a Master’s degree in Systems and Transportation Engineering MIT (USA).

Greg is a Partner at Fifth Wall, co-leading the Climate Technology Investment team. He was also a Partner at BMW i Ventures, where he led the Sustainability investing practice.

Larry Yogel is the Chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Kterio. He also co-founded Philadelphia-based Commercial Properties Group and the Core Group and served as President and Chairman of Stafford Holdings.

Siqi Zheng is the STL Champion Professor of Urban + Real Estate Sustainability and Faculty Director MIT Center for Real Estate Faculty Director Sustainable Urbanization Lab.

Ivo van Breukelen is a Managing Partner at The Proptech Connection and a known pioneer in the built environment space.

Arnie Sriskandarajah is responsible for Round Hill Ventures (RHV) investment strategy and portfolio growth. He is a multifaceted leader with diverse experiences in the real estate and technology sectors.

Diogo Castro e Silva is a partner at Finvest Climate. He was previously CEO Latam of the Fosun Group, executive vice-president at Banco Caixa Geral Brasil, and senior investment officer at the World Bank's IFC, where he led investments across Brazil, South Africa, Russia, the Balkans, and Turkey. He has a postgraduate degree in Financial Economics from the University of London and a degree in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Fábio Duarte is a Lecturer at DUSP, Head of Research Initiatives in the Center for Real Estate, and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Senseable City Lab.

Juan Palacios is an applied environmental and real estate economist working as an assistant professor at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, Department of Finance. He is also a visiting assistant professor at the MIT Center for Real Estate and the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab in the Center for Real Estate at MIT, and I am affiliated with IZA — Institute of Labor Economics.

Simon Camilo Büchler is a Research Scientist and Director of the Price Dynamics Platform at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Real Estate. Simon received a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the University of St. Gallen and a Ph.D. from the University of Bern.

Maria Alice Frontini promotes business growth and transformation of large companies in Brazil and LatAm based on her extensive experience in strategy, innovation, and technology. Maria Alice is a board member of Biolab Farmacêutica, NPL Brasil, and MIT – Massachussets Institut of Technology, Cambridge, USA. She holds an MSc and PhD from MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and USP – Escola Politécnica (Brazil).