Ana Toni is a non-profit director, consultant, and grantmaker. She currently serves as the executive director of the Brazil-based non-profit organisation Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS) nstitute for Climate and Society She is a partner in the consulting company Public Interest Management. Toni served as the first Executive Director of

ActionAid ActionAid is an international non-governmental organization whose stated primary aim is to work against poverty and injustice worldwide. ActionAid is a federation of 45 country offices that works with communities, often via local partner organis ...

Brazil, and was the

Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a US$25,000 gift from Edsel Ford. By 1947, after the death ...

's representative in Brazil in the 2000s. From 2010 to 2017 she was the Chair of the Board of

Greenpeace International Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, immigrant environmental activists from the United States. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth t ...

and serves on the board of the new Baobá Fund for Racial Equity. In July 2013 Toni was appointed to the board of trustees of the

Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., or Wikimedia for short and abbreviated as WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California and registered as a charitable foundation under local laws. Best know ...

and left it in August the next year. She lives in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

Background

Toni studied Economic and Social Studies at

Swansea University Swansea University ( cy, Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public university, public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. ...

, and earned a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in Politics of the World Economy at the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

. In 1993 she joined Greenpeace, as the International Head of the political unit in Amsterdam, and later as senior advisor to Greenpeace Germany. There she helped develop the first Greenpeace initiatives in the

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...

region. From 2000 to 2003 she served as board member of Greenpeace Brazil. In 1998 she became the first Executive Director of ActionAid Brazil, focusing on community development projects and public policy campaigns. She also supported local social investment in Brazil, as a board member of the Brazilian social investment association GIFE. In 2003 she became the

's representative in Brazil, supporting projects addressing human rights, land rights, discrimination, development, and public media.

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