Paulo Savaget Nascimento [Class of 2015] is a Brazilian professor, consultant and entrepreneur who graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2019 with a PhD in Engineering. Prior to Cambridge, Paulo obtained degrees from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the University of Sussex. Paulo is Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, working across the Engineering Science Department and the Saïd Business School. He formerly served as Assistant Professor of the Durham Business School and as Systems Change Postdoctoral Researcher at The Skoll Centre. Paulo’s research covers the mechanics of entrepreneurship through a ‘systems lens’ approach and with a special focus on large-scale socioenvironmental issues, including poverty, climate change and global value chains. He has a particular interest in working with practitioners to find and explore solutions for systemic problems in situations where resources are scarce, stakes are high, and time is short.