The Aspen Institute

Leticia Ferreira (Brazil) is the founder of FiBRA SOCIAL (www.fibrasocial.com.br) – a Brazilian consultant firm focused on helping social investors to design and implement highly-leveraged philanthropic strategies – after working 15 years in different positions in non-governmental organizations in Brazil. She has a solid experience working in the field, monitoring and evaluating social projects in different areas such as Health, Education and Safe Security. This experience was accumulated mainly in the long period in which Leticia was the CEO of BRAVA Foundation (www.brava.org.br) – a non-profit organization created by the Brazilian entrepreneur Carlos Alberto Sicupira and his family focused on generating high social impact through the improvement of public administration in Brazil. During this period she has managed a successful portfolio of 25 social projects developed in partnership with different States of Brazil that combined achieved more than 51% of the country’s population and addressed important social issues such as the improvement of the quality of Brazil’s Educational Public System. Letícia holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science and a B.A. in International Relations and is actively involved in academic programs teaching to public leaders in different courses at CLP – Centro de Liderança Pública (www.clp.org.br). She is currently member of the board of CLP, BRAVA Foundation and Instituto Empreender Endeavor Brasil, three of the most important Brazilian non-profit institutions. (Attended Socrates)