Ana Margarita Larranaga is a Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. She received a PhD in Transport Engineering in 2012, and a MSc in Transport Engineering in 2008; and a specialization in Finance and Economics in 2006 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; and a BS Engineering in Civil Engineering in 2001 at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. She is a member of the Engineering Research Committee at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, member of the Post-Graduation Committee of the Post-Graduation Program in Production Engineering and of the Production Engineering Graduation Committee at the same institution. She is the adjunct coordinator of the Transport Planning Models and Techniques area of the annual conference of the National Association for Research and Teaching in Transport (ANPET), an institution for research and teaching of transport in Brazil. She is a member of the COVID-19 observatory of the International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low-Income Communities para Latinoamerica (INTALINC-LAC) and guest editor Special Issue of Transportation Research Part A -VSI: Aligning Transportation with Sustainable Development Goals in the Global South (2021). Her main research interests are econometric modeling, active transportation, road safety, and transport planning. She participated in different research and transport projects in Brazil and abroad.