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Session 4 of the conference presents a scientific and institutional diagnosis of the polycrisis in Latin America, identifying the main risks, capacities and structural challenges of the region.
About the panel:
Rodolfo Barrere is Coordinator of the Science, Technology and Society Observatory of the OEI, Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos. He has a doctorate in Social Sciences and a Bachelors in Social Communication. Specialised in topics related to the production, management, and analysis of scientific, technological and innovation information. He currently serves as Coordinator of the Ibero-American Observatory of Science, Technology, and Society of the OEI and as Coordinator of Cooperation and Innovation at the OEI office in Argentina.
Carlo Angeles works at the intersection of biodiversity, governance, and economic innovation, designing institutional and investment architectures for regenerative development and climate action. He has contributed to the World Economic Forum and the Andean Parliament, where his work helped shape the Amazon Emergency Declaration. He is Director of Impact at C Minds, an Inaugural Fellow of the Science Panel for the Amazon, a member of Peru’s National Climate Change Commission, and a Board Member of the International Youth Foundation. During his Yale Three Cairns Fellowship, he developed “Nature as Critical Infrastructure,” reframing ecosystems as foundations of economic stability, institutional legitimacy, and long-term resilience.
Eduard Müller
Rector, University for International Cooperation
Carlos Nobre is Co-chair, Scientific Panel for the Amazon and a scientist renowned for his work on biosphere-atmosphere interactions and the climate-ecological impacts of Amazonian deforestation and global warming, with a particular focus on the risk of “savannization” of this biome. Nobre holds a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States and has worked for over 35 years at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He has been instrumental in establishing several research institutions in Brazil, including the Brazilian Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies (CPTEC), the Center for Earth System Sciences (CCST), and the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN).
He is currently a senior scientist at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo and leads the so-called Amazonia 4.0 project, a science-based initiative to develop a “standing forest bioeconomy for the Amazon.” He is the author or co-author of more than 250 scientific articles, book chapters, and books and has received several scientific awards. Carlos is one of the co-chairs of the Scientific Panel for the Amazon (SPA) and a member of the SPA’s Scientific Steering Committee.
Moderator:
Carlos Alvarez Pereira is Secretary General, The Club of Rome. He promotes research and action for a paradigm shift towards wellbeing in harmony with the biosphere. Upon a background in systems dynamics and complexity theory, he explores the reframing of science, technology and digitalization to address the existential challenges of humanity.
His professional experience spans 25 years as entrepreneur in IT consulting in Spain, Switzerland, France, and Germany. He has been a lecturer and researcher in Applied Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). He created in 2006 the Innaxis Foundation to promote interdisciplinary research in complex systems. Carlos is Secretary General to the Club of Rome International and of its Spanish Chapter. He has also served two terms as Vice-President of the Spanish Fulbright Alumni Association.
Session 4 of the conference presents a scientific and institutional diagnosis of the polycrisis in Latin America, identifying the main risks, capacities and structural challenges of the region.
About the panel:
Rodolfo Barrere is Coordinator of the Science, Technology and Society Observatory of the OEI, Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos. He has a doctorate in Social Sciences and a Bachelors in Social Communication. Specialised in topics related to the production, management, and analysis of scientific, technological and innovation information. He currently serves as Coordinator of the Ibero-American Observatory of Science, Technology, and Society of the OEI and as Coordinator of Cooperation and Innovation at the OEI office in Argentina.
Carlo Angeles works at the intersection of biodiversity, governance, and economic innovation, designing institutional and investment architectures for regenerative development and climate action. He has contributed to the World Economic Forum and the Andean Parliament, where his work helped shape the Amazon Emergency Declaration. He is Director of Impact at C Minds, an Inaugural Fellow of the Science Panel for the Amazon, a member of Peru’s National Climate Change Commission, and a Board Member of the International Youth Foundation. During his Yale Three Cairns Fellowship, he developed “Nature as Critical Infrastructure,” reframing ecosystems as foundations of economic stability, institutional legitimacy, and long-term resilience.
Eduard Müller
Rector, University for International Cooperation
Carlos Nobre is Co-chair, Scientific Panel for the Amazon and a scientist renowned for his work on biosphere-atmosphere interactions and the climate-ecological impacts of Amazonian deforestation and global warming, with a particular focus on the risk of “savannization” of this biome. Nobre holds a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States and has worked for over 35 years at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He has been instrumental in establishing several research institutions in Brazil, including the Brazilian Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies (CPTEC), the Center for Earth System Sciences (CCST), and the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN).
He is currently a senior scientist at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo and leads the so-called Amazonia 4.0 project, a science-based initiative to develop a “standing forest bioeconomy for the Amazon.” He is the author or co-author of more than 250 scientific articles, book chapters, and books and has received several scientific awards. Carlos is one of the co-chairs of the Scientific Panel for the Amazon (SPA) and a member of the SPA’s Scientific Steering Committee.
Moderator:
Carlos Alvarez Pereira is Secretary General, The Club of Rome. He promotes research and action for a paradigm shift towards wellbeing in harmony with the biosphere. Upon a background in systems dynamics and complexity theory, he explores the reframing of science, technology and digitalization to address the existential challenges of humanity.
His professional experience spans 25 years as entrepreneur in IT consulting in Spain, Switzerland, France, and Germany. He has been a lecturer and researcher in Applied Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). He created in 2006 the Innaxis Foundation to promote interdisciplinary research in complex systems. Carlos is Secretary General to the Club of Rome International and of its Spanish Chapter. He has also served two terms as Vice-President of the Spanish Fulbright Alumni Association.
