A socio-environmental lawyer with a master's degree in Economic Law (USP), he has worked extensively with Brazilian civil society organizations, having coordinated the public policy area of the Socio-Environmental Institute and WWF Brazil, in addition to a brief stint as legal chief of the DF's Environmental Secretariat. He is currently the Head of Legal at Sanctu Tecnologia. He is an H. Hubert Humphrey Fellow. Throughout his career, he has worked in the legal defense of the right to a healthy environment, advised indigenous and quilombola organizations in their actions against projects with major environmental impacts, and helped produce knowledge and formulate proposals to improve public policies and socio-environmental legislation. He believes in the value of liberal democracy and the need to defend and improve it.