Luciana Nery

Rio de Janeiro

Luciana Nery works as Deputy Chief Resilience Officer at the Center of Operations Rio, after working for five years as Advisor to the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, writing articles and speeches to the Mayor and following-up on strategic projects. She has co-authored “Rio Resiliente, Diagnóstico e Áreas de Foco”, an extensive study aimed at identifying the resilience priorities of the city, prefaced by Mayor Paes and Vice-President Al Gore. She co-manages the C40 Cities Climate Risk Assessment Network, in which the city of Rio is network leader. Previously, she worked as Advisor to the CEO of Furnas Centrais Elétricas, Brazil’s second largest energy generation company, mostly hydroelectric. At the State Secretariat for Environment she worked as IT Director and led the development of 21 environmental databases. Luciana holds a Master’s degree in International Business Administration, with focus on strategic and global networks (PUC-Rio and Université of Grenoble, France).