Head of sustainability & international portfolio investors unit
Biography
Responsible for transversal sustainability intelligence at the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), co-chairs the Working Group of Tokenization of ESG assets (part of the Real Digital Project/Drex - Brazilian CBDB), leads the BCB participation for the development of the Brazilian Sustainable Taxonomy. Isabela also leads the Bank relationship with international portfolio investors and with rating agencies for Brazil's sovereign rating assessment. With more than 25 years of experience in strategic asset allocation (SAA), advising the Board on the international reserves’ investment and on enterprise-wide risk management (RM), was responsible for the development and implementation of an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) model at the BCB and for the Brazilian international reserves’ risk management framework. Compliance and business continuity functions at the Bank were implemented under her leadership. Technical articles on SAA and RM were published in books and journals over time. Isabela holds a BA in Statistics and an MBA in Finance.
