Anacláudia Rossbach
Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Anacláudia Rossbach is the Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. She is an economist with more than 20 years of experience working on issues such as precarious settlements, informality, social housing, and land and urban policy. She was the founding director of an NGO that developed high-impact projects in informal communities in the state of São Paulo and the city of Recife, Brazil. Later, she served as a senior housing specialist for the World Bank in Brazil and internationally. In that role, she served as a high-level consultant and provided technical assistance to develop and implement Brazilian housing and slum-upgrading policies, including the Growth Acceleration Program for Favelas and the housing subsidies program Minha Casa, Minha Vida (“My House, My Life”).