Jonathas Barreto

Jonathas has more than five years of experience in the nonprofit sector promoting sustainability and social entrepreneurship within the Brazilian private and nonprofit sector in roles such as consultant, manager, and professor. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, has completed specialization courses on Nonprofit Management and is obtaining a Certificate in Corporate Sustainability from Harvard University.

Jonathas has worked in various sectors, from starting economic development projects to teaching low-income university students in Brazil. He played a key role for over two years in the most strategic partnership for Ashoka, where he, in collaboration with McKinsey consultants, implemented a Scaling Up Program for fellows to increase their impact and conceived Ashoka's first monitoring and evaluation system for fellow performance in Brazil.

Most recently, Jonathas acted as an Associate Consultant at LUME sustainability consulting, where he advised leading Brazilian companies on sustainable business practices to achieve the triple bottom line (profits, people and the planet) outcomes.

Currently, Jonathas is working as a Program Manager at Points of Light to globally replicate the organization's innovations to inspires, equips and mobilizes people to take action that changes the world.

He is an Atlas Corps Fellow, was also a co-founding member of AIESEC in Juiz de Fora and a WYSE youth fellow.