Rodrigo Tavares is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Nova SBE, where he teaches the Master-level course on Sustainable Finance. Founder and President of the Granito Group, a financial group that advances the sustainable economy though management consulting, financial advisory, and policy & research. He holds over 15 years of experience in government and international organizations working with foreign affairs and economic cooperation. From 2011 to 2014 served as Head of the São Paulo State Government's Office of Foreign Affairs. Worked as a Senior Research Scholar at Harvard University, Columbia University (postdoc grant) and University of California, Berkeley. He was nominated Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (2017) and StartUp Portugal Ambassador (2018). He has an op-ed column at TSF.