Fernando Antunes Sanchez Salvador Lopes is a student in the 2023-24 cohort of UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)'s Master of Public Administration (MPA).
An aspiring innovation enthusiast, Fernando centred his career around solving the interaction deficit between government and private entities. Fernando was the first to lead Salesforce’s Government Affairs in Brazil. Being a corporate diplomat for a big tech allowed him to keep close tabs on the frontier of technology regulation and to advocate technical education and sustainability policies that unite governments, NGOs and other companies. In the public sector, as Director of S&T of the State of São Paulo, he helped to implement the World Economic Forum's Centre of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Brazil. The economist born and raised in the city of São Paulo also had worked as advisor of Public-Private Partnerships for his hometown's government and with planning policies at the State of Ceará.
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