Luana Betti is Manager for Socioeconomics and Climate Finance at WRI Brasil, where she works to strengthen climate finance flows in the country and promote climate justice and a just transition by integrating socioeconomic dimensions into climate action and climate risk management in investment and planning decisions.

Before joining WRI Brasil, she was a researcher at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment (GRI), within the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI). She has also worked as an independent consultant in sustainable finance for development banks and as an economist at a research and socioeconomic advisory institute. Luana was also part of the Grupo de Financiamiento Climático para Latinoamérica y el Caribe (GFLAC).

Luana holds a Master’s degree in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics (LSE) in the United Kingdom and a Master’s degree in Applied Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from UFRGS, with part of her studies completed at the Nova University of Lisbon (UNL) in Portugal.