Speaker details
Compliance, governance and innovation: balancing risks and opportunities of doing business in Latin America
31 Aug - 2 Sep 2026
JW Marriott Hotel, São Paulo, BrazilSpeaker information
Lucio Batista Martins
Biography
Lucio Martins is the Global Compliance and Legal Director of the J&F group, the holding company that controls nine companies, including the world's largest food company, JBS. He has been with the group since 2014, where he began his career as a executive legal manager. With a 20-year career in the legal department of multinationals, Lucio has solid experience in the areas of compliance, litigation, contracts and corporate law. He currently heads a global Compliance executive committee, which directs the activities of all the companies in the area of Compliance and their operations in the 190 countries in which the group operates. Lucio was a speaker at panels about standardising compliance in large corporations and implementing ESG practices for International Compliance Congress – LEC, in 2023, 2022 and 2021. Lucio has also worked in other companies, such as Mondelez International, and in others law firms. He has a degree in Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) - Paraná, and a postgraduate qualification in LL.M. in Business Law from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). He also has complementary courses such as CPC-A from Legal, Ethics & Compliance (LEC) and as a Board Member from the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC).
Session
C-level roundtables: navigating compliance & governance in volatile environments
Wednesday 2 September (0915 - 1015)
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