Percy Soares Neto is the executive director of ABCON SINDCON – Brazilian Association of Private Concessionaires of Public Water and Sewage Services.  

Specialist in Environmental Economics at the University of Alcalá de Henares, master's degree in PPGA-UFRGS and doctoral internship at the International Research Center on Environment and Development - CIRED/CNRS (France). 

Until July, 2018, he was coordinator of the CNI’s (Brazilian National Confederation of Industry) Water Resources Network. 

Also, he worked at the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment. In 2018, he wrote the book "Building Water Security", released with the support of ArcelorMittal.