Our advisory board.

Alexandra is the Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer of L’Oréal Group and Executive Vice-President of Fondation L’Oréal. After studying law, Alexandra specialised in human rights. She began her career at a law firm and then collaborated with Amnesty International in Germany. In 2003, she joined IMS-Entreprendre pour la Cité, a business-driven membership organisation working on CSR. She focused on diversity management, community involvement and urban regeneration. In 2006, Alexandra Palt joined HALDE (French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission) as Executive Vice President for Equal Opportunity. In 2008, she founded Fabric of Society, a strategic consultancy firm specialising in change management and sustainability, advising large companies on their CSR policies.

Alexandra Palt joined L’Oréal in February 2012 as Chief Sustainability Officer. In 2013, she launched Sharing Beauty With All, L’Oréal’s sustainability programme. In September 2017, Alexandra Palt was appointed Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, becoming Executive Vice President of the Fondation L’Oréal in addition to her role as head of the Sustainability Department.

In September 2019, Alexandra Palt joined L’Oréal’s Executive Committee as Executive Vice President, Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer and Executive Vice President of the Fondation L’Oréal.

Dr. Angela Jackson is a recognised authority on the future of work and the CEO of Future Forward Strategies, a firm dedicated to unlocking organisational potential through continuous learning and innovation. A lecturer and researcher at Harvard University, Dr. Jackson helps leaders build high-performing workplaces that increase employee engagement, productivity, and sustainable growth.

She’s a widely published expert, with articles in Harvard Business Review and Stanford Social Innovation Review, and regularly featured in media outlets such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Fortune, and The Economist. A sought-after speaker, Angela has delivered keynotes at TED, South by Southwest, and ASU+GSV.

Previously, Angela was Managing Partner at New Profit, where she launched the Future of Work Grand Challenge, successfully reskilling 25,000 workers impacted by COVID-19. She began her career in senior global leadership roles at Viacom and Nokia.

Angela’s debut book, The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom-Line Success, released earlier this month, quickly became a New York Times, USA Today, and Los Angeles Times Best Seller.

She also serves on the boards and advises leading organisations, including Arena Analytics, Guild Education, and Needham Bank.

With over 20 years experience in climate change and sustainability communications, Callum is member of the Campaign Collective: a campaign team that identifies and amplifies new voices to widen the conversation around the climate crisis. Previously, Callum was the Communications Director for Sustainable Energy for All: a global non-profit focused on securing clean, affordable, reliable energy for everyone, and getting it done well before 2030. Before that, Callum was the Communications Director for We Mean Business: an international campaign driving corporate climate action and calling for ambitious climate policy. Prior to this, Callum was the Communications Director at The Climate Group: an international non-profit working to promote ambitious climate change action with business and government.

Carey Bohjanen is the Managing Director of Sustainable Finance Advisory and has spent the last sixteen years at the intersection of business, development finance, gender and sustainability. She drives change through multi-stakeholder, ecosystem approaches by engaging private and public sector players across value chains to develop new policy approaches, build individual and institutional capacity, implement practical solutions and uncover potential investment opportunities. She is a sought after trainer, facilitator, storyteller and coach leading transformational change and a “business as unusual” approach.

Charles-Antoine Janssen is an impact investor focused on health care access. In 2012, Charles co-founded Kois, a global impact investing firm active in health care, education, and living environments. He is a member of the investment committee of two Kois venture capital funds. He serves on the Board of the following private companies: Regency Hospitals, Medikabazaar, THB, Lilac Insights, TC4AI, GoJob, Trusted Family, and Imbra. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Quadria and Lighthouse.

In 2001, Charles joined UCB, where amongst other responsibilities, he was Head of Global Business Development, General Manager of Austria and India, and managed International Major Markets Operations. He joined the Board of Tubize in 2011, the Board of UCB in 2012, and UCB’s Audit Committee in 2015. Prior to that, Charles worked for Merrill Lynch in London from 1996-2000.

Over the years, Charles has volunteered with several nonprofit organisations (UNHCR, MSF) and founded socially-driven nonprofit organisations. He is a member of the Board of Mind & Life Europe. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Brussels University and completed the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School. Until his 2016 move to India, Charles was Assistant Professor of social entrepreneurship at the Solvay Brussels School of Management and Economics at Brussels University.

Charlie Donovan is Visiting Professor of Sustainable Finance at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. Based in Seattle, he was previously a Professor of Practice, Imperial College London, and Executive Director of the business school’s Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, which he founded in 2016. In his corporate career, Charlie has been a clean tech company co-founder and CFO. He was previously Head of Structuring and Valuation for Global Power at BP plc and part of the strategy team that launched BP Alternative Energy in 2005 with an $8 billion funding commitment. Professor Donovan began his career as a Policy Analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration. He is an Advisor to riskthinking.ai, a leading climate risk analytics firm, and is Academic Co-Chair of the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investing, an investor body representing $20 trillion of assets under management.

Clover Hogan is a climate activist and the founder of Force of Nature, the youth non-profit mobilising mindsets for climate action. She has worked alongside the world’s leading authorities on sustainability, consulted within the boardrooms of Fortune 50 companies, and counselled heads of state. Her TED talk, ‘What to do when climate change feels unstoppable’, has been viewed 2 million times.

Eric Wilkinson is a highly experienced senior executive having had significant success as a PE and VC investor as well as having co-founded a unicorn company, Top Golf Inc, in the US and executed 4 successful turnarounds. He has sat on numerous boards as an NED and as Chairman. He particularly enjoys the human interaction these roles provide within the context of rigorous and challenging goals.

His current roles include Executive Chairman of 99oint9 Hygiene Limited, NED of Vaughan Lighting Limited, CEED Limited, Smart TMS Limited and LEO Limited as well Chairman of the Advisory Board of 8 Hours Ahead, a Sino-Global technology transfer company. He is a member of the advisory board of Committed Capital LLC. He is also on the advisory board of IntoUniversity, one of the UK’s leading mentoring organisations.

Previous roles include Partner of Bain & Co., Partner of Apax Partners and Partner of The Beacon Group LLP, a boutique investment bank that was sold to Chase Manhattan in 2000 for $500 million. Eric was a member of Beacon’s Operating Committee as well as its Investment Committee. Eric subsequently led JPMorgan Partners consumer and retail private equity group until 2002. He became a partner of Talisman Management Limited in 2005.

At Talisman Management, Eric was a co-founder of Top Golf Inc, one of the fastest-growing entertainment companies in the US, currently valued at over $2 billion. He was also Chairman of Coemar Spa, an entertainment lighting turnaround which was sold in 2010, Board member and Executive Committee member of Solel Inc, a solar energy business which was sold to Siemens in 2010 and co-CEO of Leclanche SA until June 2014.

In January 2016, Eric joined Hambro Perks Limited as Partner and CIO. He helped raise over £30 million of permanent capital for the firm and the audited value of the portfolio of the firm more than doubled during his tenure. He left the firm on good terms in February 2019 to focus on his personal goals.

François Gemenne is a specialist in environmental geopolitics and migration governance at the University of Liège, where he is Director of the Hugo Observatory. He also acts as co-Director of the Observatory on Defence and Climate of the French Ministry of Defence, a lead author for the IPCC and a lecturer on climate change and migration policies at Sciences Po and Sorbonne University.

His research deals mostly with environmental and migration governance and he has worked in particular on populations displaced by environmental changes and the policies of adaptation to climate change, as well as on asylum and migration policies.

François currently coordinates two important European research projects: MAGYC, on migration governance and asylum crises, as well as HABITABLE, on migration induced by climate change. He also coordinated the DEVAST project, one of the first international projects to examine the social and political consequences of the Fukushima disaster.

He has consulted for several organisations, including the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the British government (Foresight). In 2010, he was awarded the ISDT-Wernaers Prize for achievement in the communication of science to the general public.

He is also the director of the Sustainable Development series at Presses de Sciences Po, a leading French academic publisher, and the President of the Board of the NGO Climate Voices, which seeks to connect youth from the global North and the global South around climate issues.

Professor Gail Whiteman is an expert on global risk arising from the systemic changes occurring in the natural environment, the founder of Arctic Basecamp and Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter’s Business School (UK).

Since 2012, she is the Professor-in-Residence at the WBCSD. She is a past member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Frontier Risk and is an experienced moderator at events including Reuters Impact in 2022 and the World Economic Forum in Davos. She is actively involved in building science-based targets collective business action, including those for a future low-carbon economy. She has over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including in the journals Nature, Nature Communication, and the Academy of Management Journal. Her PhD is from Queen’s University and her field work was conducted in the subarctic region of Canada. She is regularly interviewed by the press and in 2023 launched a new Reuters series, Arctic Warning, alongside Reuters Editor-at-Large, Axel Threlfall.

Jo Confino is an executive coach, facilitator, journalist, sustainability expert and Zen mindfulness practitioner. He is currently working with Leaders Quest, which helps leaders and companies align profit with purpose as well as Future Stewards, a coalition of partners working together to build a regenerative future. Jo has partnered with the UN Development Programme on a consciousness and systems change initiative, and sits on the Boards of various climate organisations. Jo held senior editorial positions at the HuffPost in New York and the Guardian in London, where he was an executive editor of the Guardian and chairman and editorial director of the Guardian Sustainable Business website. He also created and managed the sustainability vision and strategy for the company and its parent, Guardian Media Group. A mindfulness advocate, Jo has worked closely with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and his monastic community in France. Jo gained his MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice at the University of Bath.

Johan Rockström is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam.

He is an internationally-recognised scientist on global sustainability issues and led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. Rockström is a leading scientist on global water resources, with more than 25 years experience in applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.

Julia Harrison has worked in public affairs and communications for 30 years across the political capitals of Washington, London, and Brussels, advising clients globally on business-critical events and issues. After working in a DC think tank and a brief stint in the European Parliament as an assistant, she entered the then fledgling space of public affairs and government relations, and was running consultancies by the age of 23. She established Fleishman Hillard in Brussels in 1989, building it to become the market leader, heading the company’s European public affairs business and sitting on the global public affairs board. Julia then founded Blueprint Partners in 2003 as an all-women’s business, which sold to FTI Consulting in 2008 after hitting the 10 year plan in 5 years. Today FTI Consulting Brussels boasts a team of 120+ and is the market leader. Since 2020, Julia has been leading FTI Consulting’s global public affairs efforts.

Outside the office, Julia invests considerable time into gender parity issues including being a founding board member of the Women’s Forum. Through her contribution to Be Angels, Julia leverages her experience of growing businesses to support a number of start-ups. Julia has held various Non-Executive Director and leadership roles including at SustainAbility. Julia is British with an MA in English Literature from Downing College, Cambridge. She is married, has one son and lives in Brussels.

Karan Bilimoria is the founder of Cobra Beer and Chairman of the Cobra Beer Partnership Limited, a Joint Venture with Molson Coors. Lord Bilimoria is the Founding Chairman of the UK India Business Council and a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London. He is currently Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, a Russell Group University. He has been a crossbench Peer in the House of Lords for over 15 years.

Lord Bilimoria is the former President of the Confederation of British Industry (2020–2022) and Vice President (2022–2024). He also has fellowships at Sidney Sussex College (his alma mater), Said Business School, University of Oxford and Kellogg College Oxford and is an Honorary Ambassador of Cambridge Judge Business School, previously Chair of the Judge Business School Advisory Board, University of Cambridge.

Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is an author, strategist, teacher, and one of 15 “women who will save the world,” according to Time magazine. Her books on climate include the bestselling anthology All We Can Save, The Drawdown Review, the New York Times bestseller Drawdown, and Between God & Green. She leads The All We Can Save Project, which she co-founded with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, in support of women leading on climate, and she co-hosts the podcast A Matter of Degrees, telling stories for the climate curious with Dr. Leah Stokes. Previously, Dr. Wilkinson was the principal writer and editor-in-chief at Project Drawdown. She speaks widely, including at National Geographic, Skoll World Forum, and the United Nations. Her TED Talk on climate and gender equality has more than 1.9 million views, and Apolitical named her one of the “100 most influential people in gender policy.” A homegrown Atlantan, Dr. Wilkinson holds a doctorate in geography and environment from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA in religion from Sewanee, where she is now a visiting professor. She is happiest on a mountain or a horse. Find her @DrKWilkinson.

Laurence Debroux is a member of the Board of Directors of Novo Nordisk A/S (Denmark), Exor N.V. (the Netherlands), Juventus Football Club S.p.A. (Italy) and HEC Paris Business School. She holds the position of Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors at Novo Nordisk and Exor. She is also a member in remuneration and ESG committees.

Previously, Laurence Debroux held a number of executive positions in multinational companies. From 2015 to 2021 she was Executive Board Member and group Chief Financial Officer of Heineken N.V. From 2010 to 2015 she held the position of Executive Board Member and group Chief Administration and Finance Officer at JCDecaux. From 1996 to 2010 she held a number of positions at Sanofi Aventis (and Sanofi), including those of Chief Strategic Officer and Group Chief Financial Officer.

Her competences include global corporate leadership, strategy, finance, M&A, external innovation partnerships, human capital management, environmental, social and governance (ESG).

Laurence Debroux is a French national, born in July 1969. She holds a Master Degree from HEC Paris, France (1992).

Laurent-David Charbit is the Co-Head of the Private-Equity Regenerative Agriculture Fund at Tikehau Capital.

Laurent-David’s career has spanned supply-chain, procurement and consulting, combining operational roles at Unilever, Alcan, Michelin and consulting ones at McKinsey. He has worked in several countries in Europe, North America and Asia leading multi-cultural teams across the world and has a passion for driving change at scale for big challenges.

Laurent-David also has an advisory position at Ecovadis.

Louis Levin is the Co-Founder of Conspirators, an impact agency focused on “sneaking climate into culture” through partnerships with today’s most trusted storytellers: content creators. His work centres on addressing the communications crisis at the heart of the climate crisis. A once-reticent and now proud Gen-Zer, Louis knows what it takes to meet people where they are, understands the power people have to drive sustainable action, and has long recognised the potential for social media to shift perspectives and kickstart action.

Through Conspirators, he has worked with partners including YouTube, TED, Netflix, and the Environmental Defense Fund, building relationships with hundreds of content creators whose audiences aggregate in the hundreds of millions.

Luis Cilimingras is an engineer, designer, entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of sustainability, innovation, and technology.

He believes that the climate crisis, paired with the potential of AI, will reshape businesses more profoundly in the next decade than the internet has in the last 20. This perspective has shaped his work, helping organisations scale sustainable solutions that people desire, accelerating the transition to a regenerative, net-zero future.

As a partner and managing director at IDEO, where he now serves as a Fellow, Luis led the foundation of its Climate and Sustainability practice, spearheading the integration of human-centred innovation into sustainability strategies across sectors like energy, mobility, and technology, while collaborating closely with Fortune 500 companies and startups to guide C-level executives and their teams.

Before IDEO, Luis held leadership roles at Fiat Group, where he oversaw digital innovation and launched eco:Drive, a pioneering in-car app to reduce CO2 emissions, now a software installed in millions of vehicles around the world.

An engineer by training, designer by adoption, entrepreneur by chance, Luis holds a Master’s in Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona. He is a sought-after speaker, having presented at major global events like TED, COP28, and the Economist and FT’s Sustainability Summits. His work has been recognised with industry accolades, including the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for Creativity.

Luisa Neubauer is a climate activist and a key organiser of Germany’s “Fridays for Future” movement. Under her leadership, the movement mobilised millions for mass protests, which drove Germany’s coal exit, and played a central role in the adoption of the country’s first national climate law, all whilst pushing for a European Green Deal.

In 2021, she was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Neubauer vs. Germany case, in which the court ruled that insufficient emissions reduction violates the liberties of young people, marking a pivotal moment for civil rights in climate policy. In autumn 2024, she sued the German government again to strengthen social security during the climate transition.

Luisa’s advocacy has put her in the same room as world leaders such as President Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Ursula von der Leyen, and the late Pope Francis. She is well placed to build alliances that will protect democracy and the climate.

Recognised internationally, Luisa was named in the TIME100 Next 2022 list. She has received the Sermon Prize for ‘lifetime achievement’ for raising environmental awareness in the German-speaking world and has won the national prize for ‘Speech of the Year’ for defending local villages against coal mining. She has published five best-selling books on justice and climate, and her TED Talks have over 4 million views worldwide.

Marcelo Behar is a sociologist and a lawyer. He has worked in several NGOs on initiatives for indigenous citizenship, civil liberties and human rights. He also worked as a journalist of International Politics and served the Brazilian Federal Government. There, he was the Special Advisor and Chief-of-Staff to the Minister of Justice, led the disarmament campaign and, in 2007, became Vice-Minister for Strategic Affairs.

After practising law for a while, Marcelo then moved to the executive life working on multinationals (CSN and Natura &Co) in the last 15 years leading areas like Sustainability, Policy and Communications. He has always split his corporate responsibilities with collective efforts in fora like the Ethos Institute, the World Economic Forum, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Optimist by duty, Marcelo has a strong view on the imperative to reconcile collective targets between science, policy, private sector, finance and communities on the climate and on the nature agendas while we can still be effective.

Massimo co-leads BCG’s activities around Deep Tech and the next wave of innovation driven by nature co-design. He has written on the dawn of the Deep Tech ecosystem but also about what poetry brings to business and is constantly on the look for partnerships with thought leaders such as Magnum, the MIT MediaLab, TED and Hello Tomorrow to push the boundaries of BCG’s perception. His work on the BCG brand has resulted in coverage by CNBC and Bloomberg, and features in publications including Consulting Magazine and Fast Company.

Massimo joined BCG in 1997, and has worked for the company in Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna, and Berlin. In 2002, he left to run his own company, rejoining in 2006.

Michael Stevenson is Senior Advisor, Education and Skills at the Organization for Economic Development and Co-operation in Paris. His responsibilities include innovation, strategy and support for governments. He is leading the development of (1) the long-term roadmap for the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and (2) vision, strategy and policy for education in the age of AI (High Performing Systems for Tomorrow).

From 2007-2013 Michael was Vice President, Global Education at Cisco Systems. During this time he founded the Global Education Leaders Program, which he now co-chairs.

Michael began his career at the BBC, initially in television current affairs, later as BBC Secretary and Director of Education. He went on to lead strategy, communications and technology at the UK Department for Education in London.

Mike is a change agent, committed to helping business big and small, new and established to prepare for and succeed in the great sustainability disruption that will wash through the economy in the 2020s. He’s worked with organisations such as Unilever, SAP, Grosvenor, GSK, Nestle, Reiss, Nomad Foods, the Climate Pledge, the Environment Agency, Which, Royal Society of Chemistry, British Retail Consortium, Food and Drink Federation, Rentokil, Skipton Building Society, CoGo, Clim8Invest, Bord Bia and Climate Action.

Mike was until 2019 Director of Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer, spearheading its ground-breaking Plan A (because there is no Plan B for the one planet we have) sustainability programme. He co-chaired the Consumer Goods Forum’s sustainability work bringing the world’s largest retailers and fast moving consumer goods brands together to work on issues such as deforestation, plastics and forced labour. He is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a Trustee at Blueprint for Better Business.

Orowa is Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Cophi, a technology company focused on the applications of data and analytics to deep challenges in organisational culture: inclusion, innovation, and most importantly, effective collaboration. Before this, he spent a decade working in data-driven organisational transformation and leadership development. Outside of industry, he is a Computational Social Scientist at University College London, focusing on political polarisation and misinformation, including climate change disinformation.

I am the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University. My research explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy, focusing particularly on the relationships between organisational commitment and innovation and productivity in high performance organisations. I teach the award winning MBA class “Reimagining Capitalism,” which is now available as a book by the same title.

I am also a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. I have a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, a PhD in business economics from Harvard, and was a Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management for more than twenty years. I sit on the boards of Amgen, IDEXX Laboratories and CERES.

Sandrine is the Co-President of the Club of Rome and has 30+ years of European and international policy, strategy and business leadership experience with a particular focus on climate change, sustainable development, green growth, conventional and sustainable energy solutions and sustainable finance.

As Co-President of the Club of Rome, she divides her time between lecturing, facilitating change in business and policy models and advisory work. She holds several advisory positions for the European Commission and for organisations/institutes such as Climate KIC, the European Aluminium and the IEEP. Sandrine is also a Senior Associate and faculty member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a Senior Associate for E3G, Ambassador, for the Energy Transition Commission and WEALL as well as a Senior Advisor to Interel. In 2017 Sandrine co-founded the Women Enablers Change Agent Network.

Sandrine was recognised by GreenBiz as one of the 30 most influential women across the globe driving change in the low carbon economy and promoting green business. She has spent her career bringing together business leaders, policy makers, academia and NGOs.

Sue spent over 35 years at KPMG UK where she was most recently Vice Chairman and Head of ESG. As a Board member, Sue chaired the People Committee (incorporating nomination/remuneration, people policies and culture) and was a member of the Risk Committee. Previously, Sue had held a range of senior executive positions including Head of Tax KPMG EMA.

Notable achievements during her career at KPMG included the design and oversight of KPMG’s C-Suite Leadership Programme for senior client executives and introducing ESG as a key responsibility for KPMG and as a core client service offering.

Sue is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Accountants England & Wales and holds a BSc (Hons) Mathematics from Bristol University.

Conferred with the ‘Solar Man of the Year’ title on two occasions, Vineet Mittal, Chairman, Avaada Group, is a social entrepreneur and pioneer of clean energy transition in India. After creating successful businesses in the BPO and IT space, he floated Welspun Energy in 2010, which became India’s largest renewable energy company before it was sold to Tata Power in 2016.

Vineet strongly believes that energy is inversely proportional to poverty. Driven by his passion for sustainability and clean energy transition, he floated a second platform in 2017 named ‘Avaada’, which translates to a promise of a sustainable future.

An alumnus of Harvard Business School, he currently holds the position of Chairman of the MNRE’s sub-committee on Hydrogen usage and standards, Chairman of the CII National Council on climate change and Chairman of the ‘Make in India’ Task Force. He is an active member speaker at the World Economic Forum. He is on B20’s task force for financing growth and infrastructure and Energy, Resource Efficiency & Sustainability. He is also the former India Chairman of the WBCSD’s Renewables Low Carbon Technology platform programme.

Wanjira Mathai is the Managing Director for Africa and Global Partnerships at WRI.

She formerly served as VP & Regional Director for Africa, Co-chair of WRI’s Global Restoration Council and a Senior Advisor to the Global Restoration Initiative. She is also the current Chair of the Wangari Maathai Foundation and the former Chair of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya.

An inspiring leader, Wanjira has over 20 years of experience advocating for social and environmental change on both local and international platforms. Over the years, Wanjira has also served important strategic and advocacy roles raising the prominence and visibility of global issues such as climate change, youth leadership, sustainable energy and landscape restoration at Women Entrepreneurs in Renewables (wPOWER), the Wangari Maathai Foundation (WMF), and the Green Belt Movement (GBM), the organisation her mother, Wangari Maathai (2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate), founded in 1977.

Wanjira currently serves on the Board of the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), as a Leadership Council member of the Clean Cooking Alliance and a member of the High-Level Group of the Africa-Europe Foundation. Wanjira is one of a few Six Seconds EQ Practitioners in Kenya and was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Women in 2018, 2020 and 2021.