Interview : Carlos Cavalcanti (FIESP)

He has been the Director of the São Paulo State Federation of Industries (FIESP) since 2004. He was Deputy Director of the FIESP’s International Relations and Foreign Trade Department, and has held the position of Director of the Infrastructure Department as from 2008. Since COP 15, he has played an active part in the climate change negotiations as a member of the FIESP Climate Change Committee. He has coordinated and published several books about energy issues and also newspaper articles.* In 2007, he was made a Commander in the Order of Rio Branco by President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and, in 2011, a Grand Officer in the Order of Merit for Defense by President Dilma Roussef.