Johannes serves as the Executive Director of Good Energies Foundation, headquartered in Zug (Switzerland). Currently, he is also the President of the Board of World Resources Institute Brazil (São Paulo); a Board member of Arapyaú Institute (São Paulo); a Board member of the Climate and Land Use Alliance (San Francisco); and an Advisory Board member of SELCO Solar Light (India) Ltd. He started his career at Brazil’s investment bank Bozano, Simonsen, in Rio de Janeiro and New York. More recently, he served at the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Forests. Johannes’ academic formation is in moral theology, business ethics and development economics, with graduate studies at the PUC-Rio de Janeiro, and holding a Doctorate (Ph.D.) from Catholic University of Louvain.