Tami Kesselman, Founder & Executive Director,

is a strategy expert, impact advisor, and former senior advisor to United Nations initiatives focused on better aligning capital with sustainability, including leading strategic partnerships for a series of blended-capital SDG funds with UNDP and chairing the UN Capital Markets Leadership Roundtable in conjunction with UNCTAD, convening thought leaders at the intersection of sustainability, business, and consumer behavior. A former Bain consultant, she has advised Fortune 500 companies, high-net-worth families, and global institutions on how to drive meaningful impact while improving financial performance. Tami has also emceed multiple TEDx events and currently serves as a mentor for SXSW, for Harvard Business School's New Venture Competition and for the President’s Innovation Challenge, as well as judging for multiple global business competitions. She has lectured annually at Harvard on impact and structural paths to systemic change that work within current capital structures.

 

Prior to earning her MPA at Harvard with a focus on Multi-Sector Solutions and curricula across business, law, and policy, Tami interned at Procter & Gamble in Europe, and for the U.S. Council for International Business in NYC, which is what makes this project so exciting: taking on the packaging crisis with a bold, consumer-driven movement to rethink packaging in ways that work for consumers, corporations, shareholders and the greater good of the planet.