Ana Luiza Minardi was a research assistant with the global education team. Prior to joining CGD, she worked part time with the Latin American Macroeconomic Research team for Morgan Stanley in Brazil, where she is originally from. She holds a MSc in Economics from University College London, where she wrote her thesis on education policies that took place in the Northeast of Brazil. She also holds a BSc in Economics from the Insper Institute of Education and Research in São Paulo, Brazil.