Andrea Klein is the Operations and Administration Manager for EcoAgriculture Partners. In this role, she supports directors with Human Resources strategies, recruitment and selection processes, onboarding and orientation, performance management, employee relations and benefits, and organizational policies compliance. She also works with project cost control and analysis and assists in accounting and payroll activities.

Andrea has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universidade Candido Mendes (UCAM), part of which she completed in Brussels, Belgium, at Vrije Universiteit de Brussel (VUB). In 2012 she earned her Master’s in Business Administration at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where she completed her thesis, “The Impact of Organizational Actions: A Proposal for Planning Sustainable Projects.” Her studies also included courses in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), environmental and social impacts and the criteria needed to implement effective CSR projects.

Before joining EcoAgriculture Partners, Andrea had her own small business. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she enjoys aerial sports, playing tennis and board games and traveling to remote areas away from the noise of the city.