Carlos Lucena
Carlos Lucena has served in a variety of roles as a Governmental Manager (Senior Executive Service) of the Brazilian Federal Government. His novel ideas as an administrator—for improving government efficiencies and lessening bureaucracy—won him the first prize in a national competition in 2000. Carlos has a BA (honors) in Economics with specialization in Public Policy and Management.

Since 2006, Carlos has been working for the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), the biomedical research institution linked to the Ministry of Health of Brazil. He is the first coordinator of the Office of Technology Management (established in 2007) of the Aggeu Magalhaes Research Center, a unit of FIOCRUZ based in the city of Recife. To advance business development and partnerships that link FIOCRUZ-based scientists and inventors and their research and technologies to potential development partners within and outside of Brazil, Carlos is also leading the design of new training programs and conferences with a focus on intellectual property management and technology transfer. In 2008, Carlos was awarded the Developing Economies Scholarship through the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). This enabled him to participate in the AUTM Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, where he first met CARTHA Founder Usha Balakrishnan during the 5th annual meeting of the Technology Managers for Global Health.

From 1999 until 2005, Carlos worked at a local office of the Ministry of Planning of Brazil and headed a department that transfers the use of federally-owned real estate property for social purposes and deals with illegal occupation of land in coastal areas. Before that, he worked for the Ministry of Culture in the implementation of a research grant for artists overseas.

With an inherent entrepreneurial spirit in addressing societal problems, Carlos founded a nonprofit organization that implemented programs for adult literacy and IT education for teenagers at social risk. He also founded an autism advocacy group that organized a conference lauded by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Pernambuco. Carlos also devotes time to learn about latest research regarding autism spectrum disorders. He includes Christian theology among his varied interests.