Daniel is married to Fabiana Sonder, an entrepreneur in the healthy food industry in Brazil. They live in HK with their 3 kids, Gabriela (15, volleyball), Andre (13, basketball) and Alice (9, gymnastics). The family moved to Hong Kong in 2022, when Daniel joined the Hong Kong Exchange as Chief Strategy Officer. This followed a nine year period at B3 (Brazilian Stock and Futures Exchange), where he was CFO and Investor Relations Officer. He joined B3 in 2013, and, in addition to his role as CFO, Daniel was responsible for overseeing its corporate philanthropy efforts. Previously, Daniel worked for seven years at Credit Suisse in Brazil, where his last position was as managing director in their asset management division. He has also worked for the Brazilian Development Bank and the Brazilian government in infrastructure finance and state-owned companies management. Daniel started his career at J.P.Morgan in 1999. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University as well as a master's degree in International Relations from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. As a sophomore at Tufts, Daniel was part of EPIIC 95/96 (Religion, Politics and Society), and later (2021) joined the IGL Advisory Board.
Daniel was a superb student in EPIIC. His clarity of thinking and intelligence was self-evident. Obviously not only in my class, but across the board in his academic career, to enter the Fletcher 5 year program was a distinct honor afforded to only two students a year.
What was particularly delightful about him was his affect, which was at once modest and confident. Daniel’s initiative and competence was evident in his taking on one of the more responsible committees in our efforts, the Inquiry Secondary School Simulation Program, which hosted hundreds of highschool students who were prepared for a dynamic interaction over the course of three days.
His characteristic smile was always a reassuring one to his peers, from whom he easily won great respect. I gave Daniel the assignment to liaison with a very controversial speaker of that year, Leonardo Boff, the Brazilian liberation theologian who had been silenced by the Vatican for his criticism of the Catholic church. It was an obvious choice given both their Brazilian backgrounds, but really because I knew I could trust Daniel thoroughly. The campus was embroiled in the decision to bring Leonardo, which was endorsed by the University Chaplain Scotty McLennan.
Daniel sat on the board of advisors at IGL and in April 2023 was invited to join the board of trustees of the Fletcher School by its chair and good friend, Leslie Puth.