Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI). Partner at Vallya and Former Special Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil, Tereza Cristina, for matters related to China between 2019 and 2021. She is also a founding partner of the Institute of Government Relations (Irelgov).

Larissa has more than ten years of experience with the Asian market. She lived in Beijing between 2008 and 2013, working with business development and institutional affairs. She was a director at the financial advisory firm Vallya between 2013 and 2019, where she was responsible for the strategic advisory of various transactions focused on China, in sectors such as energy, infrastructure and machinery.

She holds a Master's in Contemporary China Studies from Renmin University of China and executive education degrees in International Relations and Corporate Finance from the London School of Economics with Peking University.