Ana Lucia Villela

Ana Lúcia de Mattos Barretto Villela is a Member of the Board of Directors at the Itaú Unibanco Group since 2018. Ms. Villela has also been an Alternate Member of the Board of Directors of IUPAR – Itaú Unibanco Participações S.A. since 2018; Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors (non-executive Member) of Itaúsa S.A. since 2017; Member of the Sustainability Committee (2015 to 2018) of Duratex S.A.; Co-Founder of AlanaLab (Maria Farinha Films, Flow, Jungle Bee) since 2014; Founding President of Alana Foundation since 2012; CEO of Instituto Alana since 2002; Member of the Advisory Board at Instituto Brincante since 2001 and Fellow Ashoka since 2010. She also co-founded the Alana Down Syndrome Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

She has been a Member of the Innovation Board of XPRIZE since 2018. First representative from Latin America on the Innovation Board of XPRIZE, a non-profit organization created by Peter Diamandis, who designs and manages global competitions to encourage the development of new technologies that may help solve some of mankind’s major challenges.

She was a Member of the Advisory Board at Instituto Akatu (2013 to 2017); Member of the Advisory Board at Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC) (2015 to 2017) and Member of the Advisory Board at Conectas (2003 to 2018).

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Teaching with major in School Administration and a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology, both from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), São Paulo, Brazil and took graduate studies in Business Administration from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP), São Paulo, Brazil (incomplete), and postgraduate studies in Administration in the Third Sector from the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), São Paulo, Brazil (incomplete).