Analyst at the Central Bank of Brazil since 2006, she is currently the Secretary of Public Integrity at the Comptroller General of the Union. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Government at the University of Oxford, in the Chandler Sessions on Integrity and Corruption project. Izabela has a PhD in Government from LSE, a Masters in Political Science from UFMG and Public Manager from Fundação João Pinheiro.