Senior Fellow at CEBRI. She is a political scientist with a bachelor's and master's degree from the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), a doctorate in International Relations from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and a specialization from the Columbia Global Centers. As a professor of Political Science, Mônica has taught at the Center for Public Leadership (CLP) and at the graduate program of the São Paulo School of Sociology and Politics Foundation (FESPSP). In 2018 she became Executive Director of RAPS, which she ran for 6 years. She is now the CEO of Meridiana, a new brazilian political intelligence organization focused on supporting political decision makers in the link between climate change and economic development agenda, with a special focus on the National Congress and on center and right wing politicians.