Ana is a Brazilian researcher and economist with experience in management in public affairs at Natura&Co –Brazil's leading beauty developer and one of the world's largest B-Corporations. She holds an MSc in Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design, where she developed her MS thesis on alternative water supply systems that emerged in São Paulo, Brazil, following the drought and water accessibility crisis of 2015. Now, as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, she explore in her dissertation the implementation of household energy retrofits in Madrid, where, despite policy efforts to speed up decarbonization initiatives, progress is falling short of meeting the European Union’s 2030 climate-neutral targets.
See her 2021 Essay Following the Footsteps of the Caretakers: Parquo Do Flamengo