Founder of The Human Bureau. Industry Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for Impact in Global Management (CIGMA) at Católica Porto Business School.

Ana founded The Human Bureau on a conviction: the hybrid organisations of the future will be made — or broken — at the frontier between artificial intelligence and human judgement. What distinguishes them will not be the technology they use, but the quality of discernment of those who lead them.

A nearly thirty-year corporate career spanning Executive Committees and Boards — including Symington and Nors Group — gave her a perspective that is rare: close enough to understand how decisions are actually made at the top, and honest enough to reflect on what can be missing.

She attended the Advanced Management Program at the Kellogg School of Management and holds the IDP-C certification in Corporate Governance from INSEAD. She is Industry Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for Impact in Global Management (CIGMA) at Católica Porto Business School, where her work and research focus on governance, global management and the responsible integration of artificial intelligence in strategic decision-making.

Ana is also a writer and a poet. She believes the best thinking happens at the intersection of rigour and imagination — and that the leaders who shape the future are the ones who can hold both.