Dr. Ana Pinheiro Privette is a senior program manager with Amazon's Sustainability group. She joined the Sustainability Science and Innovation team in September 2017 as the program lead for the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), a program that seeks to leverage Amazon’s scale, technology, and infrastructure to help create more global innovation for sustainability. ASDI is a Tech-for-Good project focused on democratizing access to key data and analytical capabilities to anyone working in the sustainability space.

Ana was trained as an environmental engineer and as an earth sciences researcher at the New University of Lisbon (Portugal) and at MIT. She did her doctoral research work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and as part of her project, she spent a couple of years running scientific field work sites in Africa to support a NASA international field campaign. While working at NOAA, Ana worked on the US National Climate Assessment (NCA) project focusing on bringing more transparency and traceability of the data sources supporting this climate report. After spending most of her career at NASA and NOAA as a scientist, Privette led projects for the White House climate portfolio, including the Obama Climate Data Initiative (CDI) and the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP), both focused on delivering better access and use of US Federal climate data to support researchers and decision makers.