Leandro completed a postdoctoral fellowship in administration at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He holds a doctorate and master’s in production engineering from the University of Sao Paulo Polytechnic School, a master’s in environmental management and sustainability from Harvard University, a graduate diploma in business administration from the FGV Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP), and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Sao Paulo’s Engineering School in Sao Carlos. He is a professor in the Production and Operations Administration Department at FGV EAESP. At FGV, he also serves as the head of the FGV Project Management Office (FGV PMO), the institution’s corporate office for technical assistance and applied research projects, and as the general manager of the Paraopeba River Project, which is monitoring the socioeconomic remediation efforts undertaken following the dam failure disaster in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais. He previously served as the general manager of the Doce River Project, which for four years assessed the socioeconomic impacts of the failure of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, also in Minas Gerais. He is certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and as a Senior Project Manager by Germany’s Siemens AG.