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Luís Miguel Belchiorinho Unas Managing Director
Luís and has been Floresta Atlânticas Managing Director since the inception of the company in 2007. Born in Lisbon in 1971, Luís started his career as a researcher at the Agronomic Superior Institute, Technical University of Lisbon. For over 15 years he has followed a career path in sustainable forestry management, property valuation, risk assessment and mitigation, renewable energies, nature conservation and international projects with the largest private Portuguese Forest Owners Organization (over 200,000 ha of forest properties associated). He fulfilled several functions there, such as Department Coordinator, Advisor to the Board of Directors and later, Executive Director. He has participated with the following entities in the following roles: at the Portuguese Commission for Climate Change as an invited expert, at the Portuguese Forest Council as member of the Board, at the Portuguese Agriculture Confederation as member of the Study Group on biofuels, and finally, at the Energy and Environment Agency of Arrábida as a Member of the Board and as Member of the Scientific Committee. He worked as consultant for several companies in the areas of voluntary carbon markets, biofuels, biomass for energy and international projects. Since 2004, he has worked in the development of the brand CarbonoZero® (www.carbono-zero.com). He holds a degree in Forestry Engineering from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tecnhical University of Lisbon; he also holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon School of Business & Economics.
António Carlos Marques Nora Forest Investment Coordinator
António has been with Floresta Atlântica since 2009 as a Forest Investment Coordinator. His responsibilities include the coordination of the operational management of the Forestry Assets. Born in Coimbra in 1969, António has worked for over 20 years in the development and supervision of forestry contracts as well as in the management of multidisciplinary work teams in the field. He began his career at Consultagro, first as a manager and later as technical director. After that, he created his own business, becoming a partner, manager and technical director of Paisajarte, having executed more than 4,000 ha of forestry projects in Portugal and Spain. For the DHV company, he coordinated the multidisciplinary team responsible for monitoring the deforestation and clearing process of the dam of Alqueva. This was a 30M project which focused on an area of circa 25,000 ha. Later, at Orey Financial, he led a project that aimed at creating the first Portuguese Forest Investment Fund. He holds a degree in Forestry Engineering (1992) from the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro University.
João José Cruz de Almeida de Oliveira Compliance Officer
Born in Lisbon in 1976, João has been with Floresta Atlântica since 2007 where he is currently responsible for the back office, compliance and regulatory issues (Bank of Portugal and CMVM), budgeting, and for the management of the Forest Assets Information System. Prior to joining Floresta Atlântica, he worked in supervision, controlling and physical auditing for the EU and National Financial Support Programmes, for agricultural projects under FEOGA (the Agricultural Fund) Guidance. He holds a degree in Forestry Engineering from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Technical University of Lisbon, and a postgraduate degree in Business Management, from the INDEG - ISCTE.
Célia Barbosa Forestry Engineer
Born in 1977 in Lisbon, Célia joined Floresta Atlântica in 2012, where she is the focal point of the Forest Certification Program, responsible for the technical assessment of the Forest Management Plans. Célia holds a degree in Forest Engineering from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia and also holds a post-graduation in Project Management from Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. She has been with MultiForest since 2006, where her main responsibilities have been the elaboration of Forestry Management Plans and PRODER Incentive candidacy projects, the development of a natural resources software management system, including tools associated with geographical positioning systems and also supervising and controlling of forestry field work. She has also been responsible for the economic and financial analysis of new business opportunities and project planning. Prior to that she was with Aliança Florestal Sociedade para o Desenvolvimento Agro-Florestal, S.A., as a forest engineer, where she was involved in the certification of Portucel Soporcels Forestry processes and code of conduct, as well as forestry inventory processes, geographical information systems, biomass and real estate asset valuation. She started her career as a Scientific Researcher, first with the Instituto Superior de Agronomia and later with RAIZ The Forestry and Paper Research Institute.