Alexandre Xavier Ywata Carvalho has a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from ITA, a Master's Degree in Statistics from University of Brasilia, and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Northwestern University. He is currently Head of the Econometrics Group at IPEA, and is responsible for a large project aiming at the organization of government socio-economic Brazilian data bases at IPEA. He is a former Head of Regional and Urban Studies at IPEA, and former member of the NSF panel for computational intelligence. He was a assistant professor of Statistics at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a forecast analyst for UBS, Chicago. In the REDD-PAC project, Alexandre works on establishing future scenarios for land policy in Brazil, and on adapting the GLOBIOM and EPIC models to Brazil.