Andrea Bonime-Blanc, JD/PhD, is founder and CEO of GEC Risk Advisory, a strategic governance, risk, ESG and cyber advisor to business, NGOs, and government. A former senior global corporate executive (Bertelsmann, Verint, PSEG), she serves on several boards and advisory boards (including Cyber Future Foundation, NACD New Jersey Chapter, Athena Alliance & Wirex Systems). She is Independent Ethics Advisor to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, Independent ESG & Integrity Advisor to the Platform for Social Impact and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
She was named to the 2022 NACD Directorship 100 and holds the Carnegie Mellon Cyber Oversight Certificate. She is a global keynote speaker, visiting professor and book author, including Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value (Routledge 2020) and the annual ESGT Megatrends Manual (Diplomatic Courier). She received her Joint JD in Law and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, was raised in Germany and Spain, and lives in New York City.
