Thanks for checking out my site and portfolio. I’m a Brazilian-American writer who covers Greater China from Beijing and Taipei, with a focus on the environment, clean technology and agriculture. I came to China in 2007 as a Princeton-in-Asia fellow at the China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU), when I began reporting for Newsweek, the Engineering News-Record, Monocle and Travel+Leisure. Today I am the China correspondent for ClimateWire. After serving as the dining editor of Time Out Beijing, I was Asia Bureau Chief for Dell’s launch of the “Take Your Own Path” platform.

A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and spent a year working on the commodities exchange floor of the Chicago Board of Trade before moving east to attend Harvard University. There, I received a degree in Social Studies and a Certificate in Latin American Studies. After graduating, I helped create the strategy and planning department at mcgarrybowen, then the largest independent ad agency in New York City, and where I worked on accounts including Chevron, JPMorgan, Kraft and WSJ.com. I spent some time at the Council on Foreign Relations in Latin America Studies, after which I moved to China nearly three years ago.

Increasingly, my focus is on natural resource management, the environment and clean technology. I’m interested in the world’s emerging powers, especially China and Brazil. I recently received start-up funding for AgriGate, a business intelligence newsletter focused on the agricultural technology landscape, from the Center for Leadership Initiatives. I will continue to explore China’s agricultural policies in the MSc program in Modern Chinese Studies at Oxford University this October.

I am fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, and recently completed my third year of intensive Mandarin studies at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, supported by a HuaYu Scholarship from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education.