Ms. Ilona Szabó de Carvalho

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho is the co-founder and president of the Igarapé Institute – an independent think and do tank that develops research, solutions and partnerships to impact public and corporate policies and practices to overcome the main global challenges. She was previously the Executive-Secretary of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and of a national gun control campaign in Brazil. She earned a Master’s Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Uppsala in Sweden, is an affiliate scholar at the Princeton University Brazil Lab, and was a public policy fellow at Columbia University in NY