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Passionate about green transformation, committed to advancing climate policy, sustainable finance, and climate literacy to drive the global transition to a low-carbon economy. Focused on aligning financial strategies with ambitious climate goals for impactful change.
Currently working at a Green Advisory Service, focusing on closing the sustainable investment gap by mobilizing capital towards impactful climate mitigation and adaptation projects. Through the GreenAssistC2M initiative, she supports LIFE-funded projects, ensuring their financial and market readiness for scalability and long-term impact.
From 2013 to 2023, she served as Executive Director at Vega Ventures, advising venture capital (VC) funds focused on energy transition, circular economy, and sustainable business models. With over a decade of experience, integrating climate considerations into financial planning and investment decisions to drive sustainable impact. By leveraging a strategic mindset and investment expertise, she successfully facilitated funding for high-impact climate solutions, ensuring that capital flows align with net-zero targets, biodiversity conservation, and decarbonization efforts. Her expertise extends to risk management, financial analysis, venture capital, blended finance, and carbon markets, unlocking both private and public investments for climate innovation.
Recognized for her contributions, she was named one of the Top 50 Women in Venture Capital and the Startup Ecosystem in Portugal by Vestbee and is a certified Business Angel by IAPMEI.
In 2021, she joined Cleanwatts, a climate tech scale-up delivering "Energy Transition as a Service". At a critical early stage for Energy Communities, she contributed to refining the financial and engagement models, ensuring the long-term viability and scalability of decentralized energy systems. Through pioneering projects with energy agencies, universities, commercial associations, and municipalities, she helped design investment frameworks that aligned with climate finance mechanisms to drive private and public funding into clean energy solutions.
Lead by real environment implementation in the private sector industry. Also worked on several other initiatives such as Alliance for the Energy Transition—a consortium of projects building a robust ecosystem for accelerating decarbonization and the energy transition, Mobilizing Agendas for Corporate Innovation, structuring funding strategies to support low-carbon industrial transitions, Support for industry Decarbonization roadmaps, – integrating climate budgeting methodologies into corporate sustainability plans, EIC Accelerator, ESA- BIC- securing investment for climate and energy innovation
By bridging finance and sustainability, she helped scale climate-resilient business models, ensuring that capital allocation strategies supported the energy transition and broader climate objectives.
From 2018 to 2020, she operated as an external entrepreneurship expert for The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), assisting the evaluation of EIT InnoEnergy Business Plans for Seed investment in Cleantech and Grant reporting.
She holds a BSc in Business, an MSc in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship, and a Master’s in Sustainability Management. A Certified Chartered Accountant, she is fluent in Portuguese and English and proficient in French and Spanish.