Carlos, a Guinea-Bissau national, is the Chairperson of the Board. He is a member of the UNs’ Committee for Development Policy. Carlos is currently serving as an Honorary Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, and he is a fellow of Chatham House, Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership, SOAS Development Leadership Program, ODI Global, and International Science Council. He is also a board member for a number of institutions, including WRI and Climate Works Foundation. He has occupied several leadership positions across the UN, including Policy Director for Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Head of UNDP’s Policy Bureau, Head of UNITAR and the UN System Staff College, UN Resident Coordinator in Zimbabwe and Brazil, and Executive Secretary of the UNECA from 2012 to 2016. He was selected in 2017 as a member of the African Union Reform team and in 2018 as the AU High Representative for Partnerships with Europe. He has served in the Global Commission for Economy and Climate (serviced by WRI), the Global Commission for the Future of Work (serviced by ILO) and the Global Commission on the Geostrategy of Energy Transformation (serviced by IRENA). He served on the COP28 UAE Advisory Committee in 2023 and he is the COP 30 Brazilian Presidency Special Envoy for Africa.