Renata Villers is a founding member and executive director of ADA (ada.org.cr), the leading NGO pioneering teacher professional development to improve educational opportunities for low-income children in Costa Rica. With ADA since 2000, Ms. Villers is responsible for organizational strategy, stakeholder relations, collaborations development and fundraising. Today ADA benefits from multi-sector collaborations with faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Costa Rican Ministry of Public Education, other academic advisors, private corporations and non-governmental organizations. Before ADA, Ms. Villers was an independent consultant to several Costa Rican non-governmental organizations, including the National Institute for Biodiversity (INBio), where she was responsible for marketing research, strategic planning and the development of biodiversity based collaborations with academic partners and corporations, such as Merck and Eli Lilly. Prior to coming to Costa Rica, Ms. Villers was a consultant with J.E. Austin Associates – the consulting group of Harvard Business School professor James E. Austin – where she developed case studies, training materials and other products for developing country NGOs and institutional clients, such as the Woman's World Banking and the International Finance Corporation. Ms. Villers is a magna cum laude graduate in economics from Harvard University and holds an MBA from the Columbia Business School. Since 1992 she works in Costa Rica, where she resides with her husband and two daughters.