Andressa Pappas
With extensive experience in formulating and implementing public policies, as well as institutional and governmental affairs, Andressa Pappas has a degree in Law from Brasilia University Center (UniCeub), with a specialization in Conflict Resolutions and Negotiation from the International Business and Management Education Centre (IBMEC), and Negotiation Mastery from Harvard Business School. Her professional career includes 14 years in the Federal Government and currently 10 years in the corporate sector.
Currently, she is the General Manager and Director of Government Affairs at the Motion Picture Association – an organization that represents the largest producers and distributors of audiovisual content in the world: Disney, Netflix, Sony, Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Being responsible for the entity in Brazil, her mission is to, through various actions, actively collaborate with the development of the Brazilian media & entertainment industry.
In the Federal Government, she has worked at the Special Secretariat for Human Rights, designing and implementing public policies aimed at children and adolescents. She then advised the Secretary of State for Inclusive Production at the Ministry of Social Development, where she stood out in developing policies aimed at the inclusion of minorities in the Brazilian job market.
Soon after, she became General Coordinator of Sustainable Development, at the Ministry of Culture’s Secretariat of State of Audiovisual, where, after two years, she was invited to join the Motion Picture Association; currently coordinating all the organization’s initiatives and strategies in Brazil.