Aline is a member of the Investment Committee at Pala Investments and serves as Head of Risk Management, overseeing both financial and operational risk across the Pala group.

In parallel, she leads a commodity hedge fund with a long/short, absolute return strategy, for which Pala provides certain services. The fund invests in energy, metals, bulk, agricultural and environmental commodities. Together with her team, she applies a “quantamental” investment approach, combining macro- and microeconomic fundamentals with advanced mathematics and big data analytics to drive investment analysis and decision-making.

Aline has eighteen years of investment experience in emerging markets and cyclical assets classes investing, including portfolio management, fundamental research, big data forecasting, ESG investing, risk analysis, syndicated finance, debt restructuring, credit analysis, private and equity capital markets.

Prior to joining Pala in 2011, Aline worked at the World Bank, where she managed a portfolio of investments in the manufacturing sector and executed numerous transactions related to IFC's climate change mandate.

Before this, Aline was part of the ABN-AMRO Equity Capital Markets team, where she executed several IPOs. Aline also worked on ABN AMRO’s asset & liability department as senior interest rates trader and liquidity modeler. She began her career at Louis Dreyfus, where she was responsible for estimating commodities’ demand, with a focus on new technologies such as ethanol, and modelling hedging risk.

Aline holds BSc in economics, a MS in Risk Management and an MBA from the IE Business School.