Fernando Aguzzoli-Peres is Executive Director and co-founder of the Walking the Talk for Dementia Institute (WTD Institute), a Brazil-based non-profit reimagining how dementia is understood and addressed worldwide.

He is a journalist, best-selling author of five books on dementia for adults and children, and a three-time TEDx speaker. Fernando is an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (Trinity College Dublin), a Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellow of the U.S. Department of State, and Director of Institutional Development at the International Longevity Centre Brazil (ILC-BR).