A lawyer, having graduated from Mackenzie University, with a postgraduate degree in Law and Agribusiness from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation and a specialisation in Intellectual Property and Innovation in Agribusiness from UFSC. Before graduating in law, he obtained a degree in Information Technology from the ITA – Technological Institute of Aeronautics.
He was a Legal Adviser at ANDEF – the National Plant Protection Association for 20 years and, more recently, Innovation and Sustainability Manager, helping to foster sustainable innovation in agriculture, advocating swift and science-based regulation of pesticides with strict criteria on safety for human health and the environment.
At Dannemann Siemsen he works in the regulatory area for pesticides, veterinary products and access to biodiversity and fertilizers; as well as in defending the intellectual property of these products, the security of information submitted electronically to government bodies and the generation of regulatory intelligence information in these areas.
He was responsible for creating the legal framework of the National Institute for the Processing of Packaging – inpEV and the PROHUMA Institute for Scientific Studies, as well as the drawing up of Law 10,603/02, which provides for the protection of regulatory data submitted for the approval of marketing of pesticides, fertilizers and animal health products.
He is a member of the Agribusiness Commission at the OAB/SP.