FÁBIO LUÍS DE OLIVEIRA ROSA
Executive Director
IDEAAS
Fábio Rosa is the founder and executive director of IDEAAS – Institute for the development of natural energy and sustainability, based in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Mr. Rosa is an Agronomical Engineer, an inventor and a Social Entrepreneur. Fabio Rosa developed new models and technologies to promote the access and use of energy to the excluded people, mainly in rural, isolated or remote areas in Brazil.
Mr. Rosa´s projects use renewable energy only, and these projects models made easy the access to electricity through innovative business models and renewable energy. Some of this models influenced public policies and served millions of people, like “The Electricity for All Program”, the brazilian´s government rural electrification program.
Mr. Rosa is an Ashoka Social Entrepreneurs Society memberlife fellow and board member in Brazil (Washington DC), a certified social entrepreneur of Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship/World Economic Forum (Geneve, Sz) and an elected leader of AVINA Foundation (Geneve, Sz) and the former president of RENOVE – the brazilian NGO’s network for renewable energy.
Recipient of awards in social entrepreneurship, use of electricity and technical innovations for the benefit of humanity, technology, like “THE TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AWARDS 2001 – ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY WINNER”. The Tech Museum of Innovations, Center for Science, Technology & Society; Santa Clara University, CA & The United Nations University); the USAID´S “AWARD OF APPRECIATION 2001” - United States Agency for International Development – USAID/Energy Program. Brasília, Brasil; the “2004 - FAST 50 AWARD”. Fast Company Magazine, USA; the 2004- “THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARD – Social Entrepreneur Category”. The World Technology Network. San Francisco, CA, USA