Carolina Costa joined the RELX Group in January 2020 to serve as the Head of Government Relations for Latin America. RELX is a FTSE 100 global provider of information and analytics across a number of different industries. The company employs 30,000 people around the globe. In her role, Carolina is responsible for managing RELX’s public policy issues and engagement with government officials and political leaders across Latin America, working to balance global consistency and local relevance on a number of economic, governmental and societal issues that impact the company and represent core values, including technology, innovation and business policy issues, such as scientific research and technological development; privacy and data management; digital trade; healthcare; financial crime threat mitigation, including around identity theft, fraud, and money laundering; education; environment; rule of law; and intellectual property.

Prior to joining RELX, Carolina spent a decade at McLarty Associates, a Washington-based political advisory firm, where she worked as Regional Director for the Brazil & Southern Cone practice. Between 2007 and 2010, Carolina lived and worked in her native Brazil. There she served as Manager of Institutional Relations at Walmart, where she was responsible for the company’s relations with Brazilian government officials at the national and state levels (2009-2010), and prior as an Advisor for Institutional Relations at the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), where she managed the organization’s relations with Brazilian and foreign stakeholders (2007-2009). She began her career at McLarty Associates in 2002 and quickly rose to become an Associate before departing to Brazil.

Carolina has an MA in international trade and investment policy from George Washington University and a BA in economics from Calvin College. She is fluent in Portuguese and English and has working knowledge of Spanish. She has served as member of the board of the Association of Women in International Trade (WIIT) and is a member in the Executive Circle of the Elliott School Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP) at the George Washington University.

Carolina lives in Washington, DC with her husband and two children.