Gabriel A. Carranza

Dr. Gabriel A. Carranza currently serves as Executive Director of Global Engagement, where he provides vision, mission, objectives, and strategies to globalize education, research and service. He also serves as Adjunct Research Faculty at the Institute for Coastal and Water Research, and 

as an Affiliated Research Faculty of the Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Center of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Carranza has also served as a Visiting Professor of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering at State University of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil.

His main area of research has been water borne illnesses, water quality and sustainable energy.

Dr. Carranza has a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Autonomous University of Mexico, a master’s and a PHD in Microbiology and Pathobiology from Texas A&M University.

Gesner Oliveira

Partner of GO Associados, a Brazilian consulting firm. As a consultant, has participated as expert witness and arbitrator in several cases involving private and public disputes. Experience includes participation as expert witness in the New York Bankruptcy Court.

Professor of Economics at Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and Coordinator of FGV’s Infrastructure & Environmental Solutions Studies Center. He was visiting professor at Columbia University in the U.S. in 2006. Member of the International Academy of Law and Economics.

Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California (Berkeley), Master from the Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP) and Bachelor from University of São Paulo (USP).

He is a Board director of BRASKEM and TIM. In both companies coordinates the Statutory Audit Committee.  At TIM is a member of the ESG Committee. He is also the President of the Board of Directors of Estre Ambiental. He has been certified as an independent board member and a Member of the Audit Committee (CCoAud + IBGC) by IBGC (Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance).

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Compact's "Movimento + Água”.

His previous positions include being the CEO of Sabesp – Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo (2007-11), the fourth largest water company in the world; President of CADE - the Federal Antitrust Authority (1996-2000); Deputy Secretary for Economic Policy (1993-95) and Secretary for Economic Monitoring (1995), both of which, within the Ministry of Finance.

Gustavo Rafael Collere Possetti

Gustavo Rafael Collere Possetti is Head of Research and Innovation at Water and Sanitation Company of Paraná State (Sanepar), Brazil. He works at Sanepar since 2010. He is Doctor and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Informatics by Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil (UTFPR), specializing in Photonics in Engineering and Automation in Petroleum and Natural Gas Processes. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering – Electronics and Telecommunications by UTFPR and in Environmental Engineering by Federal University of Paraná. He leads innovative and sustainable projects in environmental sanitation area, focused on efficiency energy, bioenergy and resource recovery. He guides national and international cross-functional and networking works. He published more than 250 technical and scientific papers. He is a member of both International Water Association (IWA) and Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WtERT) - Brazil. He coordinates the advisory committees about sewage treatment of Brazilian Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (ABES) and is director at ABES-Paraná. He is a member of the Technical Innovation Chamber of the Brazilian Association of StateSanitation Companies (AESBE).