Gildete de Araujo Lima graduated from Columbia University (Master of International Affairs) in May 2011. She concentrated in Economic and Political Development with a regional specialization in Latin America and professional track on Sustainable Development. She is from the Northeast Region of Brazil and brings extensive private sector experience with her.

 

Additionally, she worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization Agency (FAO - United Nations) as a Policy Officer in the Summer of 2010 and engaged herself in a Workshop Development Project for Columbia University in partnership with PepsiCo, in which she spent 7 month working as a Corporate Social Responsibility Consultant, assessing PepsiCo's value chain (suppliers) in Chile. She is currently working as a Senior Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Officer for one of the largest cosmetics company in the South of Brazil.