Joanna has spent 15 years aligning business & investment markets with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Currently she co-leads the US & Canada regions at CREO – a global platform on a mission to invest $100billion into the decarbonization transition by 2025. Headquartered in New York City, CREO partners with 200+ asset owners in 25+ countries to activate its mission, catalyzing billions of dollars of private capital investment annually into climate solutions and the transition in support of the Paris Agreement.
Previously Joanna was a Management Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where she advised Fortune 100 corporations on strategies to decarbonize. While at BCG, she also produced research identifying competitive advantage in a sustainable world in collaboration with the firm’s Global Head of Sustainability, David Young.
Prior to this, with the backing of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Muhammad Yunus, Joanna co-founded MyVision – an international accelerator for student entrepreneurs building companies that tackled the world’s biggest social & environmental challenges. MyVision worked with over 10,000 young business leaders globally with Joanna as its Co-CEO.
Joanna also founded and led Hand in Hand, an international non-profit empowering youth to contribute to local and global development. This culminated in hundreds of youth-led impact projects across the Americas & Asia, a speaking tour, and a cross-chapter effort that built two schools and rural healthcare facilities in rural India and Sierra Leone.
Joanna is a Rhodes Scholar, holding a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University of Oxford where she co-launched the inaugural Rhodes Venture Forum. She also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from McGill, where she pioneered one of the world’s first accredited academic programs in social entrepreneurship as the founder and lead designer of McGill’s Minor Concentration in Social Business & Enterprise. The end product was shared in the Global Social Business Academia Report for other universities to learn from, and it awarded Joanna the Desautels Academic Prize. Joanna attended McGill on a major renewable scholarship and was in her final year awarded a Scarlet Key, McGill’s highest honour for excellence in leadership and outstanding contribution.
Joanna is the Co-Founder of Women in Climate Finance, Founding Board Advisor to the MaRS Catalytic Climate Platform, Member of the Banff Forum, and she is on the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee for Quebec. Joanna is a competitive ballroom dancer and speaks five languages.
