Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela
- Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela is a member of one of Brazil’s oldest banking families and is the youngest female billionaire in Brazil.
- Her great-grandfather founded the bank Itau, which merged with Unibanco in 2008 to form Itau-Unibanco, Latin America’s biggest private sector bank.
- She is one of the largest individual shareholders of Itausa, the bank’s holding company, with about 12% of common shares and 3% of preferred shares.
- Her grandfather founded Duratex, a publicly-traded Brazilian maker of wood paneling and bathroom fixtures; she is a shareholder.
- She became a shareholder of the bank when she was 8 years old as her parents died in a plane crash in 1982.
