Luciana Mendes Santos Servo is a Brazilian economist and researcher. Servo has been the President of the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) since February 2023 when she was appointed by the Minister of Planning Simone Tebet.

Servo received a doctorate in economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a masters in economics from the University of São Paulo.

Servo began working at IPEA in 1998 and has participated largely in studies of health policy, coauthoring reports by the Council for Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policies (CMAP) which evaluated hospital bed and ventilator availability during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

Servo is the third woman and first Black person to lead IPEA.

Servo was announced as President of IPEA on January 20, 2023, and was inaugurated on February 15, 2023.

Servo's nomination came after a controversy with Simone Tebet where she said that in the Ministry of Planning, she " want[s] not only to have women, but black women. And we know, regrettably, that black women are usually the breadwinners of the family. Bringing people from outside Brasilia is very difficult because wages are very low."

Tebet was criticized by Anielle Franco, the Minister of Racial Equality, who offered a list of black economists to work for Tebet. From this list, Tebet chose Servo.

Her inauguration was attended by Tebet and the Minister of Management Esther Dweck.