Georgia Pessoa

Biography

Georgia Pessoa is lawyer by training and comes to Humanize with a range of experience. She has worked at the Roberto Marinho Foundation, leading the environmental area and prior at Rare, serving as the Executive Director of the organization in Brazil. Before she has worked at Moore Foundation, Funbio, WWF, and she had set up the Latin America Regional Climate Initiative (LARCI) in Brazil. LARCI is a consortium of four foundations: ClimateWorks, Children's Investment Fund, William and Flora Hewlett, and Oak. She has a combination of technical skills, experience in conservation, fundraising, and sustainable use endeavors, policies, compliance and legal advisory. She brings a good blend and perspective of NGOs, governments, private sector and funders to Rare.

Georgia has abilities to develop and implement socio-environmental programs, strategies, projects, grants, legal frameworks and economic instruments in South America, with over thirteen year’s experience. Team player with proven negotiating skills, highly committed to achieving results. Well connected in the conservation and philanthropic community, and continuing constructive working relationship with dedicated environmentalists in the Brazilian government, private sector, NGOs and universities.