Gianna Cardoso Sagazio

As Innovation Director of CNI (Brazil?s National Confederation of Industry), Ms. Sagazio is responsible for the Executive Coordination of the Entrepreneurial Mobilization for Innovation (MEI) and policy issues for innovation and management innovation. Launched in October 2008, the MEI?s mission is to increase innovation in Brazilian industries. Previously, she has served as advisor to the President of the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and was representative of the BNDES in the Brazilian Industrial Policies and Science, Technology and Innovation Policies from 2011 to 2014. She coordinated, also by BNDES, the Brazil ? United States Initiative for Innovation, along with the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI), the Competitive Brazil Movement (MBC) and the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, which launched the Brazil ? U.S Innovation Platform in 2013. She worked for over twenty years at the United Nations (PNUD) on issues related to economic development, strategic planning and policy evaluation and as Economist at Dom Cabral Foundation with themes related to entrepreneurial and Brazilian competitiveness from 1989 to 1997. She holds a master?s degree in Economic Development from Catholic University of Brasilia and is certified by Wharton School University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in Strategy and Innovation.

Diretora de Inovação da Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI), responsável pela coordenação executiva da Mobilização Empresarial pela Inovação (MEI). É membro do Conselho Diretor do Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (FNDCT); membro Conselho Consultivo da Financiadora de Inovação e Pesquisa (FINEP); membro do Conselho de Administração do Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos (CGEE); membro do Comitê Gestor da Sala de Inovação, do Ministério da Economia (ME) e membro da Comissão Nacional de Coordenação do Projeto Diálogos pelo Brasil da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (ABC). Antes, passou pelo Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento (BNDES), Nações Unidas e Fundação Dom Cabral. Possui Mestrado em Desenvolvimento Econômico pela Universidade Católica de Brasília, certificada pela Wharton School University of Pennsylvania em Estratégia e Inovação.