Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva

Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva

Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva is the Chair of the Technology Executive Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). He is a Brazilian career diplomat and the coordinator for scientific and technological affairs at the Climate Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Silva is also Brazil’s focal point to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is the co-founder and executive coordinator of the São Paulo Innovation and Science Diplomacy School (InnSciD SP). Previously, he served as head of the Science, Technology & Innovation and Cooperation sector at the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin, as well as the STI sector at the Brazilian Embassy in New Delhi. He also worked as Deputy Head of the Information Society Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was Brazil’s representative to the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD). Before joining the Brazilian Foreign Service, he was Director of Customer Services for the Americas at Comptel Communications in São Paulo and Software Development Manager at Siemens AG in Munich, Germany. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering (2000) from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP), a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (2009) from FFLCH-USP, and a master’s degree in Philosophy of Technology (2013), also from USP. Currently, Silva is a PhD candidate of Science and Technology Policy at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp).

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  • Organization
    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • Profession
    Chair of the Technology Executive Committee
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