Raquel is the Deputy Director of Global Operations for the Climate, Economics, and Finance Program where she provides strategic leadership in financial management and operations. This includes grants and contracts oversight, budgeting and forecasting, financial reports and proposals, and complex HR issues. Together with the Operations Director, they lead an operations team of about 30 coordinators across the program.

Since joining WRI in 2009, Raquel has worked as an Operations Manager, Grants and Finance Manager and an International Initiatives Coordinator. She was also the WRI contact point for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Prior to WRI, Raquel was a program associate at Men’s Health Network. Raquel attended the University of Miami where she obtained a B.A. in International Relations and Psychology as well as a specialization in Foreign Languages.

Raquel is half Brazilian, half Cuban and was born and raised in Brazil. She lives in California with her husband, Owen, their son, Thomas, daughter, Stella, and rescue dog, Willow.