Alexandre Strapasson is PhD Researcher at Imperial College London, funded by the Capes Foundation of Brazil. He works on energy and environmental research, with focus on biofuels, at the Centre for Environmental Policy in partnership with the Energy Futures Lab. Among his professional experiences he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil (MAPA) as Head of the Department of Sugarcane and Agroenergy and Chairman of the Sugar and Ethanol Chamber, as well as at the Ministry of the Environment of Brazil (MMA) as Consultant of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for energy and climate change affairs. He is Engineer and took a Masters in Energy at the University of São Paulo (USP), with additional studies in Climate Change at the Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center of Japan in Tokyo, and in Economics and Management at the IFP in Paris, where he is also occasionally teaching as an external lecturer.

Chairman of Imperial College Brazil Forum