Andressa Ribeiro is an Urban Adaptation Analyst and is part of the Urban Development team of WRI Brasil Cities Program. She collaborates on projects focused on sustainable and resilient urban development and disaster risk management, aiming to support transitions in urban practices and policies grounded in nature-based solutions (NBS) and social equity.

At WRI Brasil, Andressa has worked with Brazilian and Latin American cities. She has experience in urban public policies, having contributed to the creation of instruments such as the São Paulo Street Design and Works Manual and the Brazilian National Plan for the Reduction of Traffic Deaths and Injuries (Pnatrans). She has also worked on developing urban diagnosis and evaluation tools, such as the Quali-Urb Infância (Bernard Van Leer Foundation) and projects related to safe street design for pedestrians and cyclists, tactical urbanism interventions and mobility planning.

Andressa holds a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), with an emphasis on feminist urban planning and the care dimension. She is an architect and urbanist by UFRGS, with part of her undergraduate studies at Birmingham City University (UK).