Tereza Campello is an economist, researcher at the Nucleus of Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health - NUPENS/USP and Professor of the Graduate Program in Public Health Policies at the Fiocruz School of Government. Doctor in Public Health from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and post-doctor in Food Safety from the University of Nottingham/United Kingdom. Between 2020 and 2022, she held the Josué de Castro Chair in Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems at USP's School of Public Health, and was also an associated researcher at the University of Nottingham and professor of the Economics at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos). She was Minister of Social Development and Fight against Hunger from 2011 to May 2016, having coordinated the Brasil Sem Miséria Plan, which lifted 22 million people out of extreme poverty. He also coordinated the Bolsa Família Program, the National Social Assistance Policy, the National Food and Nutritional Security Policy and the Cisterns Program, that distributed 1.2 million cisterns in the Brazilian semi-arid region. Between 2002 and 2011, she led top priority programmes in the area of development, such as the National Plan on Climate Change, the Biodiesel and Ethanol Programs, the “Citizenship Territories” and the Green Arch Effort (Mutirão Arco Verde), which made some public services, land regulation, and a sustainable development project available for the Amazon region.