Enhancing sustainable efficiency: applications of data envelopment analysis in ESG performance measurement

Hebert Wesley Pereira Zaroni is Ph.D. student at the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI) and holds a master’s degree in Production Engineering and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the same university. Currently, he is the Vice President for Administration at UNIFEI, where he works. His doctoral research focuses on ESG relations and the public sector, as well as their efficiency.

Rafael de Carvalho Miranda is Professor at the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI) and Vice-Director of the Institute of Production Engineering and Management. He teaches in the Graduate Programs in Production Engineering and Administration at UNIFEI and is a CNPq Level 2 research productivity fellow. He holds a degree in Production-Mechanical Engineering and a master’s and a Ph.D. in Production Engineering, focusing on Simulation Optimization and Genetic Algorithms. He is Researcher at UNIFEI’s Advanced Studies Center for Decision Support and the Economics and Finance Group, with experience in quantitative methods, simulation and optimization.

Alexandre Ferreira de Pinho is Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Production Engineering at the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI). He works in the areas of Operations Research, Computational Simulation, and Decision Support Systems. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI), a Master’s in Production Engineering from UNIFEI, a specialization in Systems Analysis, Design and Management from PUC-MINAS and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the São Paulo State University (UNESP).