Maria Paula Oliveira
Innovation Leader​, EY
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Maria Paula ‘MP’ Oliveira is the Innovation Leader for EY MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Her mission is to ensure the company has strong ‘innovation muscles’: the right technology, processes and culture to thrive through change.​

MP has experience in Latin America, USA, Asia Pacific, and Middle East, having been four times a corporate innovation leader and twice an entrepreneur – in the Silicon Valley, where she also graduated from 500 Startups and Plug & Play acceleration programs.​

Under MP’s leadership, EY MENA was awarded ‘Most Innovative Knowledge Enterprise’ in 2019, and MP herself was presented with the ‘Excellence in Innovation’ award by the Women Leadership Awards in the Arab World, in 2020.​

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