Fabiola Zerbini

Fabiola Zerbini is the Executive Director of Conexsus – Instituto Conexões Sustentáveis. A lawyer with a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Politics from the University of São Paulo (PROCAM/USP), she has over 20 years of experience in public policy, forests, land use, and sustainable development. From 2023 to 2025, she served as Director of the Department of Forests at Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change. She previously held leadership roles at organizations such as WRI Brasil (Director of Forests, Land Use and Agriculture), the Tropical Forest Alliance (Latin America Director), and FSC Brazil (Executive Director), with a strong focus on zero-deforestation supply chains and sustainable production. Earlier in her career, she worked on solidarity economy and fair trade with organizations such as FACES do Brasil and Instituto Kairós.