Maria Ana Neves is an Associate Member of Help Images, a Fellow of The RSA (Royal Society of the Arts) and SSE – School of Social Entrepreneurs.
Professionally she is a Design Strategist, Associate Lecturer at the University of the Arts (UAL) – Central St Martins – school of design (London) and an expert in Innovation Management with a major interest in social and environmental challenges. Over the last 15 years, she lived in London where she took part in various initiatives to designing-out waste, projects include co-founding Plan Zheroes, the first hybrid of a citizens movement and new technology platform to end Food Waste and Food Poverty in London.