Nancy Lopes Garcia is a renowned statistician and researcher with an outstanding academic and administrative career. She earned her Bachelor's in Statistics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1985), an MSc in Mathematics from the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (1988), and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1993). Since 1987, she has been a key member of UNICAMP’s Statistics Department, becoming a full professor in 2002.