Marina Anselmo Schneider

Marina Anselmo is a partner at Mattos Filho. Her practice focuses on domestic and international capital markets transactions, finance, and structured finance. She has represented virtually every major bank activity in Brazil’s capital and financial markets. Her experience includes project finance transactions in the context of bank and capital markets financing, representing financial institutions, development agencies and sponsors in a wide range of infrastructure-related projects. Anselmo has substantial experience in derivatives, securitization, and hybrid instruments.

Partner, Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados

Lícia Souza

Lícia Souza is a lawyer passionate about technology and entrepreneurship, with over 20 years of experience in business development, corporate management, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate venture capital. Going from executive to entrepreneur, she founded WE Impact, a Venture Builder dedicated to women startup leaders, with the purpose of making the ecosystem more inclusive and innovative. She is also an ally of the WEPs – Women's Empowerment Principles with UN Women.

CEO, WE Impact

Rachel Maia

Rachel Maia is founder and CEO of RM Consulting, a firm focused on the S of ESG and leadership. Previously at Tiffany & Co., Maia led the company's entry into the Brazilian market and managed all financial aspects of Tiffany's growth as Brazil's CFO. After establishing Tiffany & Co. as a Brazilian-market leader, Maia was hired to lead the expansion and growth of the Danish brand Pandora. As CEO of Pandora Brasil, she led the company's growth from two points of sale to over one hundred points in a period of 8 and a half years. She was also CEO of Lacoste S.A.

Founder and CEO, RM Consulting

Nathalia Rodrigues

Nathalia Rodrigues is an entrepreneur and creator of the Nath Finanças platform. Her aim is to make financial education accessible and dialogues mainly with the low-income audience, whether students, interns, unemployed people, or workers who earn a minimum wage. Her goal is for all her followers to tart using the money in the best way possible, maintaining mental and financial health. In 2020, her work was recognized by Forbes and she made the Under 30 list. The following year, she was listed as one of the great world leaders by Fortune magazine.

Founder and CEO, Nath Finanças

Daniela Milanese

Daniela Milanese is a financial journalist with more than 25 years of experience covering Brazilian markets and economy. She joined Bloomberg News in 2015 in Sao Paulo, where she leads the Portuguese local language team, and is the co-leader for Bloomberg Women's Community. Prior to Bloomberg, Milanese was at Agencia Estado/Grupo Estado where she served as Executive Editor and had worked as a Brazilian correspondent from London. She was also a reporter at Folha de S.Paulo.

Editor, Portuguese Service, Bloomberg News

Sergio Díaz-Granados

Sergio Díaz-Granados, the executive president of CAF—Development Bank of Latin America—is a lawyer specializing in government and finance from Colombia’s Externado University, with postgraduate studies in Public Management for Social Development from INAP (Spain). He studied constitutional law at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He boasts a long career in the public and private service, both nationally and internationally, with a special emphasis on development and regional integration issues.

Executive President, CAF

Juan Gabriel Valdés

Juan Gabriel Valdés was minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Chile from 1999 to 2000, ambassador of Chile to the United States from 2014 to 2018, ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations (2000-2004), ambassador of Chile to Spain (1990-1994), and ambassador of Chile to Argentina from 2003-2004. From 1996 to 1999, he was Chile's Trade Negotiator. He also served as Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations and Chief of the United Nations Mission in Haiti from 2004 to 2006. 

Ambassador of Chile to the United States