Rafaela Guedes is Deputy Director for Special Projects at Igarapé, Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) and member of a panel of experts on Energy Transition at the Institute for Climate and Society. She has 18 years of professional experience in the Energy Industry and for the last 5 years has been dedicated to energy transition strategies and sustainability. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a master’s degree in international management from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and PhD student in Energy Planning at COPPE/UFRJ.