Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias is the Director for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use at the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change. Previous roles at this institution include research director of the national environment agency (IBAMA), coordinator and director for biodiversity conservation, and national secretary for biodiversity and forests. Braulio served as the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Science Officer of the Science Panel for the Amazon established by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Braulio was a key negotiator for the establishment of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), the International Pollinators Initiative, the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and the Global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity for 2011-2020 with the 20 Aichi Targets and served as advisor to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on agroecology and mainstreaming biodiversity in agriculture.

In Brazil, Braulio has coordinated the establishment and implementation of several national conservation initiatives (Brazilian Biodiversity Program and Project, Brazilian Fund for Biodiversity (FUNBIO), Brazilian National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), National Council for Genetic Patrimony (CGEN), National Coordination Commission on Biodiversity (CONABIO), and Brazilian Pollinator Initiative) and has been a member of the National Technical Committee on Biosafety (CTNBio).

Braulio received the National Biodiversity Prize from the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment in 2018. He is broadly interested in biodiversity, fire ecology, tropical ecology, and conservation, and on the science-policy interface on biodiversity and ecosystem services.