Elisa Pereira

Research Team

Graduate Student, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Elisa Pereira spent nearly a decade deploying AI solutions across Latin America before turning to research. As a Master’s candidate at Stanford GSB and researcher at the Digital Economy Lab, she works with Erik Brynjolfsson on questions of AI value creation and what it takes for organizations to capture the full potential of the technology.

Before Stanford, she was Director and Partner at 39A, a technology venture studio in São Paulo, where she led projects ranging from AI sales agents and machine learning models for non-obvious credit decisions to multi-agent systems for legal process pricing. Earlier in her career, she worked in venture capital and strategy consulting, investing in startups and advising major companies on growth.

Her broader research interests center on how emerging economies can build competitive positions in the global AI landscape. She is particularly interested in what it takes for countries like Brazil to become producers of AI, not just consumers of it.

Elisa holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Unicamp and an MTech from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne.