Maria Netto served at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as a principal specialist in capital markets and financial institutions and at the New Development Bank (NDB) as head of the financial institutions and markets division. At both organizations she was responsible for overseeing innovative financing strategies programs with local financial institutions and capital markets to promote private sector investments in low-carbon and resilience projects in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Previously, Maria Netto also worked at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), where she was responsible for overseeing global projects to assist countries in assessing investment and financial flows and policy options to integrate green business across different sectors and economic activities. Finally, Maria Netto worked for more than 10 years at the Secretariat of the Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where, among others, she was responsible for leading the institution's work on bilateral and multilateral financial cooperation, for the assessments and monitoring of investments and financial flows to address climate change and the development of carbon market mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol. She holds a master's degree in economics from the Geneva Institute for International and Development Studies.