Andrea Margit is the Environment Unit Head at Roberto Marinho Foundation where she leads a portfolio of educational projects, including water and forest management, natural heritage, and sustainable cities. She has worked in conservation since 2002 in the fields of learning and communication. She was the Institutional Learning Director at Conservation International (www.conservation.org) in Virginia, U.S., from 2005 to 2008. She has also led CI's communication strategy in Brazil for over 3 years. Much of her fieldwork is related to participatory planning, media relations, conservation awareness campaigns and training. Prior to joining CI, she worked in marketing and strategy at the credit card industry and consulting firms. She has a bachelor in Journalism, a specialization in Information Sciences at the University of Paris II, and a master in Business Administration at Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo. Her current field of research is in cross-sector partnerships and social network analysis.