sandra seru

Managing Director
Forum for the Future Americas

Sandra is the Managing Director of Forum for the Future Americas and directs a team dedicated to unlocking complex sustainability challenges through a practice of systems change. Her experience and expertise is in enabling senior leaders to develop a vision and strategy for transformational change, and catalysing interventions and collaborations that can have a disproportionate impact on society and the environment. One particular challenge she is focused on is sustainable nutrition – how can we ensure the way we grow, distribute and eat food provides healthy and nutritious diets while restoring ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of farmers? She drives a number of projects and collaborations in support of this goal, including the Protein Challenge which is working to ensure healthy, sustainable and affordable sources of protein are available to all. Sandra is also focused on growing Basecamp Americas, a program of the School of Systems Change, which she helped launch in the US to support emerging leaders.

Sandra came to Forum from The B Team, a sustainability advocacy organization directed by private and public sector leaders such as Sir Richard Branson, Dr Gro Brundtland, Paul Polman and Mary Robinson. There she led strategy and operations to help The B Team grow its movement of business leaders driving a better way of doing business. She also led sustainability strategy and reporting at Diageo, a global beverage company, and ran sustainable development projects across North, Central and South America while at the non-profit Business for Social Responsibility. Sandra has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Harvard University.