Our Expert Network

A specialist in Government and Institutional Relations, Lesley Ishii holds a degree in International Relations and a postgraduate qualification in Administration from FGV. With more than a decade of experience, she engages with public leaders, parliamentarians, representative organisations and businesses.

Her career includes coordinating business and institutional missions to Japan and connecting networks for entrepreneurship and bilateral cooperation. She is the founder and president of REN Brasil and co-founder of Rede Nipo-Brasileiras.

At BEST AgriTrade, she contributes to the development of strategic partnerships, the shaping of institutional agendas and closer business ties between Brazil and Japan.

With professional experience spanning Brazil and Europe, Bruno Albuquerque contributes to market-access projects and to the legal and regulatory structuring of agribusiness operations.

His work connects the requirements applicable to products and operations with the company's decisions, supporting the assessment of risks, barriers and feasibility conditions before investing, exporting or establishing an international presence.

As Of Counsel to BEST AgriTrade, he complements the co-founders' technical and regulatory intelligence and institutional relations, extending strategic analysis to business between Brazil, Europe and Mercosur.