Andrea Bonime-Blanc, JD/PhD, is Founder and CEO of GEC Risk Advisory, a global strategic governance, risk, ESG, ethics, and cyber advisor to business, NGOs, and government. A former senior global executive at Bertelsmann, Verint and PSEG, she serves on several boards and advisory boards (including Crisp, WireX, the Cyber Future Foundation & NACD New Jersey Chapter), is Independent Ethics Advisor to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, Independent Integrity Advisor to the Platform for Social Impact, and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the recipient of a NACD Directorship 100 Recognition in 2022, an NACD Governance Leadership Fellow, and holds the NACD Carnegie Mellon Cyber Oversight Certificate, a sought-after global keynote speaker, a professor of Cyber Leadership and Resilience at NYU. Andrea has authored many articles and several books, most recently Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value (Routledge 2020) and the annual e-book The ESGT Megatrends Manual 2022-2023 (Diplomatic Courier 2022). She was born and raised in Germany and Spain, speaks several languages, lives in New York City, and tweets as @GlobalEthicist.


Andrea Bonime-Blanc will participate in the World Justice Forum working session Democracy Dividends of ESG Investing