Gabriel Tenenbaum is C40 Director of Implementation for Latin America and holds twelve years of experience working with climate action and sustainability in the region. He has a Masters in Transport Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in Generalist Engineering from École Centrale de Lyon, France.
Gabriel is responsible for the operations of all regional programmes, including UCAP CAI, Laneshift, Breathe Cities, ZEBRA, TUMI, and for ensuring that regional work is coordinated with C40’s global strategy, increasing C40 technical support to cities effectively.
Before this role, Gabriel was C40’s Head of Zero Emission Vehicles, managing The Climate Pledge Laneshift Initiative for freight decarbonisation and the ZEBRA Partnership for zero-emission bus implementation in the region. Gabriel’s relationship with C40 started in 2018 when he joined the organization as Mass Transit Network Manager, and then as the ZEBRA Programme Manager in 2019. He spent 2 years at the Rio de Janeiro Transport Department from 2021 to 2023, leading the promotion of governance reform in the city public transport system before returning to C40. Before C40, Gabriel worked at other public, non-profit and private sector organisations focusing on transport and infrastructure.