Luana Betti is a Socioeconomics and Climate Finance Specialist at WRI Brasil, where she works to integrate climate risks and the socioeconomic dimensions of climate change into investment and planning decisions by governments and businesses. Her work seeks to strengthen climate finance flows in Brazil while promoting climate justice and a just transition.

Before joining WRI Brasil, she worked as a researcher at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI), as part of the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI). She also worked as an independent sustainable finance consultant for development banks and as an economist at a socioeconomic research and advisory institute. In addition, she was a member of the Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (GFLAC).

Luana holds a master's degree in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (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 and completed part of her undergraduate studies at NOVA University Lisbon (UNL) in Portugal.