Luana Ozemela

Luana Ozemela has over 15 years of experience in social and economic development policy in the academic, private, and public sectors in three continents. She is the CEO of Development Impact Managers and Advisors (DIMA), providing consultancy services in the area of economic and social development in Qatar and Brazil. She graduated in Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 2003. She then completed a Masters in Development Economics and Economic Policy Analysis from the University of Southampton in England and received a Doctorate degree in Labor Economics in 2011 from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She is a former staff of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington (DC), where she created the first program to support Afro-entrepreneurs and implemented a broad racial equity agenda at the institution, having participated in more than US$500 million in financial operations in more than 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries. She is currently on the board of several institutions, including the Brazilian Security Exchange Commission's Financial Innovation Laboratory and Brazilian Association of Development Banks (Plan 2030). Her mission is to increase the volume and effectiveness of investments aimed at the black population and make financial markets more inclusive.