Miguel Alexandre Barreiro

Miguel Alexandre is an accomplished professional with over two decades of experience working with the United Nations, specializing in partnership building, disaster risk reduction, and community empowerment. He holds a JD in Law, a PhD in Sociology from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and advanced executive education in Strategic Communications from Columbia University. Throughout his career, Miguel has been deeply involved in evaluating the sustainability and impact of development investments using Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. His extensive work has taken him to crisis-impacted regions and middle-income countries, where he has collaborated with non-state actors, local councils, MPs, high-ranking government officials, civil society organizations, private sector entities, and high-net-worth individuals.

Currently, Miguel focuses on partnership-building initiatives targeting the private sector and high-net-worth individuals, with a particular emphasis on environmental protection and climate change mitigation in crisis contexts globally. In addition to his UN work, Miguel serves as the Director of the IE Policy Labs and is an Associate Professor at IE Business School, the School of Policy Economics and Global Affairs, and the School of Science and Technology.

As a SPURS/Humphrey Fellow at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his academic research includes AI scalability, the application of ethics in social business hybrids, and the sustainability and ethical implications of AI in social enterprises, with a particular focus on environmental protection, climate change mitigation, cultural heritage preservation, and community empowerment.