Larissa Wachholz is a business executive specialising in institutional relations, with nearly 20 years of experience in the Chinese market. She holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Renmin University of China, and has also studied at the London School of Economics and Peking University.

She lived in China from 2008 to 2013. Since 2013, based in Brazil, she has travelled frequently to China as an organiser of business roadshows and academic and public policy missions, maintaining close ties with Chinese business leaders, academia, and public officials.

In business, she works primarily across agribusiness, infrastructure, and energy. She served as Special Advisor to Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, until July 2021. At MAPA, she was responsible for establishing and leading a unit dedicated to China-related agribusiness affairs within the Minister’s office, known as the “China Desk”.

Wachholz is a Senior Fellow at CEBRI – the Brazilian Center for International Relations. In 2023, she took on the coordination of CEBRI’s China Analysis Group.