Who We Are

• Clarissa Lins

  Founding partner at Catavento Consultoria (August 2013). Board Member at ArcelorMittal (June 2021), Votorantim Cimentos (April 2021) and Member of Suzano’s Sustainability Committee (Aug 2019). Vale’s Senior Climate Adviser (May 2019), where she also served as member of the Sustainability Committee of the Board of Directors (May 2017 – May 2019). President of the Brazilian Institute for Oil, Gas and Biofuels – IBP (Nov 2019 – March 2021), where she was also member of the Executive Committee (2016-2019). Member of Petrobras Board of Directors (May 2018 – December 2019), where she was chair of the HSE Committee, member of the Audit Committee., and member of the Strategy Committee (May 2018 – May 2019). Member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Energy at the World Economic Forum (September 2018 – November 2020). Member of CEBRI’s Board of Trustees (March 2021), previously Senior Fellow for the Energy Group (2017 – 2020). Member and chairwoman of Shell plc’s External Review Committee (October 2012 – June 2015). Member of SustainAbility’s International Council (2010 – 2020). Co-author of the book “Talking sustainability in the Boardroom” (2018) and “Sustainability and Value Generation: a Transition to the XXI century” (2011). Executive director at the Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development –FBDS (2004 -2013). She worked in the public sector for several years, at the Ministry of Finance during the elaboration of the Re)al Plan (1993-1994), BNDES (National Development Bank) as special advisor to the CEO (1995-1999) and at Petrobras, as special advisor to the CEO and executive manager of Corporate Strategy (1999-2002). She has an academic background in Economics (master’s degree from PUC-Rio).

• Bruna Mascotte

  Senior partner at Catavento Consultoria (May 2015). Coordination of consultancy projects, with a special focus on mapping global trends and translating them into risks and opportunities for business strategy and sustainability. Expertise in energy transition, climate change, ESG finance, O&G and mining. Co-leadership of projects at Vale, Prumo, Shell, Petrobras, B3, Açu Petróleo, Porto do Açu, Wilson Sons, Enauta, Constellation, CEBRI and Coca-Cola Brasil, among others. Co-author of articles and reports such as “The future of energy: reflexions during a pandemic” (November 2020), “Energy integration in Latin America: opportunities and challenges” (November 2020), “Energy transition in the maritime sector” (August 2019), “Brazilian natural gas market opening” (July 2019). Certified by the CFA Institute in ESG Investing (June 2021). Bruna holds a masters degree in Macroeconomics and Finance from PUC-Rio’s Department of Economics (2020) with the thesis “The impact of oil price shocks: a small model for the Brazilian economy”, with Carlos Viana de Carvalho as adviser. Bruna holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from Ibmec-RJ (2015), having studied for 6 months at the Université Pierre-Mendès France (Université de Grenoble II),  in France (2014).

• Guilherme Ferreira

  Partner at Catavento Consultoria, since January 2018. Coordination of consultancy projects, with a special focus on mapping global trends and best practices and translating them into risks and opportunities for business strategy and sustainability. Expertise in climate change, energy transition, ESG, mobility of the future, infrastructure, and mining. Co-leadership of projects at Vale, Prumo, Quantum, Norte Energia, Eletrobrás, UK Embassy, CEBRI Energia, Constellation, and Coca-Cola Brasil, among others. Co-author of articles and reports such as “Maritime challenges: decarbonization and geopolitical tensions” (December 2020), “Pre-salt’s window of opportunity” (April 2020), “Mobility of the future: climate change and new technologies” (February 2020), “ Belt and Road Initiative: opportunities and lessons for investments in infrastructure and energy in Brazil” (September 2019), “The energy sector in 2022” (Aug/2018), “New technologies and digitization of the energy sector” (Aug/2018), “The new governance of regulatory agencies” (Apr/2018), among others. Guilherme holds a graduate degree in Business Management from Fundação Dom Cabral – RJ (2020). Guilherme holds a bachelor’s degree in Production Engineering from PUC-Rio (2018), with an additional certificate in Entrepreneurship. From June 2015 to May 2016, he studied with a scholarship from the Brazil Mobility Program (BSMP) at Mercer University, in Atlanta, United States. Undergraduate researcher in the project “Performance Assessment in Humanitarian Operations” at the HANDs laboratory at PUC-Rio (2014 – 2015).

• Tamara Fain

  Partner at Catavento Consultoria (October 2020). Contribution to consultancy projects, including benchmark analysis and mapping global macro trends and their risks and opportunities for business strategy and sustainability. Expertise in energy transition, climate change, O&G, mining, environmental management and ESG. Participation in projects at Vale and Açu Petróleo. Professional experience on HSE consultancy at Witt O’Brien’s Brazil (January 2017 – September 2019), focusing on  environmental risk analysis and emergency response and as a market researcher at Fluence Corporation, doing market research and analysis for the water and wastewater sectors (December 2019 – September 2020). Intern at Centro Clima/COPPE UFRJ (2015), participating in the development of the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for the city of Rio de Janeiro. Master in Business Administration (MBA), specialized on corporate sustainability, at the University of Haifa, (Israel – 2020). Final project – “Toxic algae water treatment – a market research”. Environmental engineer graduated at UFRJ (2019). Final project – “Crisis and emergency management involving tailings dams in Brazil: proposal to apply the Incident Command System methodology”