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, and as Deputy Head of the Information Society Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 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. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a master's degree in Philosophy of Technology, and is a PhD candidate in Science and Technology Policy at Unicamp.