MIT Sloan School of Management

London Business School

Harvard Kennedy School

MetaIntegral Academy

The University of Auckland

Co-lead WBCSD’s Climate Action program, a global, cross-value chain business platform facilitating learning and collaboration to accelerate and unlock decarbonization solutions, to limit the earth’s temperate rise to 1.5°C. 

Lead on Climate Upskilling (masterclasses, peer learning), Scope 3 decarbonization & supplier engagement including the Climate Drive (www.theclimatedrive.org), Climate Adaptation & Resilience.

WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Director, Climate Action & Accountability; Member of the Extended Leadership Group

Sustainability & Electrification: responsible for strategy, prioritisation and implementation of programs to increase the number of electric vehicles on the Uber platform, thus lowering urban transportation emissions towards Uber’s SPARK! Commitment for a zero emissions platform.
Initiatives include awareness raising, affordability and access to electric vehicles for drivers, availability of charging infrastructure, driver charging experience and fleet electrification.

Uber has committed to become a fully zero-emission platform by 2040, with 100% of rides taking place in zero-emission vehicles, on public transit, or with micro-mobility. Towards that, Uber has also committed to be 100% electric in Europe by 2030, and to be 50% electric by 2025 in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Madrid and Paris.

Membership: Leading, developing and launching new cross business (Mobility + Delivery) products across the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region including strategy, market research, stakeholder management and product input.

Uber

Lead, Growth Programs; Sustainability, Electrification, Membership

Treasurer and Member of the Board of the Global Coffee Platform.

The Global Coffee Platform (GCP) is a unique multi-stakeholder membership association of coffee producers, traders, roasters and retailers, civil society, associations, governments and donors, united under a common vision to work collectively towards a thriving, sustainable coffee sector for generations to come.

Global Coffee Platform

Treasurer & Board member

IDH convenes, co-creates, and co-finances inclusive and sustainable solutions that enable people in business, investment, and government to create value for people and the planet.   https://www.idhsustainabletrade.com/

• Responsible for steering €40M investment agenda; transforming private sector business practices towards more sustainable production and building public-private partnerships and governance in coffee origin countries. 
• Convene and co-invest with the world’s largest coffee roasters (50% of world market share) and traders in new sustainable business models in coffee origin countries. (investment ratio public to private1:3)
• Lead and manage a global team of 14 across 5 countries to design and implement strategy
• Lead strategy creating coffee sector impact on living incomes, smallholder inclusive business models, access to finance for smallholder farmers, gender equity, agro-forestry, water management and responsible agro-input management.
• Direct global IDH team in building and retaining culture and value of the organization as it matures from start-up to global institution

IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Program Director

Seconded part time from IDH as Deputy Director on the start-up Executive team responsible for team integration and setting the direction and delivery in the first year of a new Global Coffee Platform organisation.

www.globalcoffeeplatform.org

GCP Members believe that sustainability is a shared responsibility to enhance farmers’ economic prosperity, improve well-being, and conservation of nature. GCP brings together coffee producers, roasters, retailers, traders, governments, associations, donors, and NGOs to multiply efforts, collectively act on local issues, and scale successful sustainability initiatives across the sector.

Together with its Members and Country Platforms in coffee- producing countries, GCP works on increasing demand and supply of sustainably produced coffee in order to ensure diversity and the viability of the coffee sector. Through a Global Team, GCP works with companies, organizations and Country Platforms in coffee producing countries to align, act and grow to ensure the future of coffee and the sector at large.

With a farmer-oriented approach, GCP strives to address the most critical sustainability challenges and contribute to greater collective impact on the livelihoods and natural environments of coffee farming communities.

Deputy Director (seconded)

• Designed, convened & implemented The Sustainable Coffee Program, a global multi-stakeholder public-private partnership program aligning investment agendas of major global coffee roasters and transforming the sector towards sustainable production.
• Invested $50M over 5 years together with private partners representing 30% of global coffee demand. Achieved our global goal of 25% sales of green coffee sustainably sourced by 2016, established and/or supported national coffee platforms in 6 coffee producing countries and reached over 500,000 smallholder farmers
• Management of public and private stakeholders and teams in Europe/USA, Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Tanzania, Uganda & Vietnam
• Co-founded the Global Coffee Platform, a membership organisation of coffee farmers, trade and industry and civil society. Members work jointly towards improving economic, social and environmental conditions for all who make a living in the coffee sector.

www.sustainablecoffeeprogram.com
www.idhsustainabletrade.com/coffee
www.globalcoffeeplatform.org

Senior Program Manager

• Research, innovation and program design addressing critical challenges in the mainstreaming of sustainability in international commodity markets e.g cocoa, cotton, etc.
• Program management, stakeholder engagement and launch of IDH Electronics program in China in 2011-2012
• Program scoping in flowers, fruit & vegetables, spices sectors

Senior Manager Learning & Innovation

Strategic analysis of social innovation and sustainability in Amsterdam.  Made connections in the local community and identified opportunities for Impact Hub to get involved.

Impact Hub Amsterdam

Social Innovation Researcher

Google.org is the philanthropic arm of Google Inc, with 2 energy initiatives - one to accelerate the uptake of PHEVs, the other is to make renewable energy cheaper than coal (RE<C).

•	Managed development of geothermal video and website content, generating 13,000 unique views on launch day
•	Developed & co-presented a wind strategy to guide Google.org investments, gaining approval for implementation
•	Analysed and made strategic recommendations for Google’s involvement in next generation electricity

Google

Google.org Climate Change & Energy MBA Intern

•	Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Innovation
•	MIT Energy Conference organiser
•	Vice President of Net Impact (sustainability)
•	MIT $100K Entrepreneur Pitch Competition Team Lead
•	Co-president of Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development Club 
•	Published an MIT IPC working paper on Prizes for Energy Innovation together with the X Prize Lab@MIT http://web.mit.edu/ipc/research/energy/pdf/EIP_10-001.pdf

MBA, Entrepreneurship & Innovation

•	Managed the successful adoption of a new decision making process for large capital projects involving multiple senior stakeholders across the organisation
•	Identified bottlenecks and modified project governance framework and processes to enable faster and more transparent new business development

Shell Gas & Power International

Decision Review Board Coordinator & Business Forum Support

•	Led cross-business projects to achieve significant reductions in cost, time and environmental impact by creating tools for the supply chain, logistics and customer service teams using Lean Six Sigma
•	Scoped, analysed and developed a project partnering with a third-party service provider to deliver potential savings of $1 million/yr and an estimated reduction of 1.5 kilotons/yr CO2 emissions

Supply Chain & Logistics Developments Project Manager

Delivered consulting projects within Shell including a strategic analysis of new business opportunities for fuels, business process mapping for outsourcing financial transactions, and resource management of internal consultants

Business Consultant

Developed a sustainable entrepreneurship training program for the economic empowerment of women in rural and slum areas and researched micro-credit schemes which were available to them.

AIESEC development traineeship

Trust for Reaching the Unreached

Community Development Volunteer

AIESEC is the world’s largest student-run organisation developing youth through an international exchange program.  I was elected Vice President in Austria responsible for Exchange Quality.

•	Created & implemented learning programs across Austria to prepare, integrate and reintegrate AIESEC trainees, resulting in enhanced international experiences for 120 trainees/yr 
•	Designed & delivered training and facilitation for conferences of up to 200 people in nine countries

Jenny Kwan