Bruno Batavia holds an MPA from Columbia University and a LL.B from PUC-Rio.

He is the Director of Emerging Technologies at Valor Capital Group, a venture capital firm based in New York focused on Latam and US-Brazil cross-border opportunities.

Bruno also brings more than 13 years of experience working with innovation at Brazil’s Central Bank, where he led studies and initiatives with a particular focus on emerging technologies.

Most recently, he served as the Deputy Project Manager for the Digital Real (Drex) Project, Brazil’s CBDC initiative, which earned the #1 global ranking in finance and #7 in the overall rank of Project Management Institute’s (PMI) “Top 50 Most Influential Projects of 2022”.

Earlier in his career, he co-authored the Central Bank’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policy framework and served as the founding Chair of its ESG Committee, driving the ESG agenda across the organization.

Bruno has been featured in the Global Government Fintech’s ’23 People to Watch in 2023’—a list that includes influential figures from government agencies, central banks, regulators, and multilateral organizations.