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CEO & Founder, Greenium, DC: The SustainabilityX® Magazine's Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards™ 2024 Awardee
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"Bold innovation in start-ups and impactful policy reforms have empowered me to transform the climate crisis into a climate revolution." - Anna Benjamin, CEO & Founder, Greenium, DC, United States & The SustainabilityX® Magazine's Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards™ 2024 (#SustXGlobal50) Awardee
Dr. Anna Benjamin, founder of GreeniumDC, is a driving force in solving the sustainability data challenges faced by asset managers in the United States. With an impressive career spanning decades, Anna has influenced over $30 billion in spending and $48 billion in assets under management, advancing innovative solutions that merge financial performance with environmental stewardship. Her firm, GreeniumDC, provides actionable strategies that bridge the gap between complex sustainability data and impactful decision-making, empowering organizations to embrace bold climate solutions.
A former senior environmental economist at the World Bank, Anna has left a lasting global impact through her work. In Indonesia, her policy reforms helped reduce fuel emissions by an estimated 20%, addressing deeply entrenched subsidies that disproportionately benefited wealthier populations. In Romania, she championed the preservation of the Danube Delta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Europe’s most significant ecological assets. Her expertise in blending public and private finance and leveraging data for decision-making has set her apart as a leader in sustainability.
Anna’s innovative approach extends to the real estate sector, where she advises prop-tech start-ups on integrating sustainability into their operations. Her guidance has been instrumental in developing cutting-edge technologies to decarbonize the built environment, addressing one of the most significant contributors to global emissions. Anna's passion for fostering innovation reflects her belief that bold leadership is essential to achieving climate goals.
Beyond her professional achievements, Anna is a dedicated mentor to women in sustainability, offering guidance and amplifying their voices in decision-making spaces. She employs micro-feminist actions to ensure equitable representation in discussions and encourages women to pursue bold initiatives with confidence.
Anna’s contributions have consistently demonstrated her ability to turn crises into opportunities for meaningful action. Her advocacy for bold policy reforms, innovative technologies, and inclusive leadership continues to inspire others to join the fight against climate change.
Receiving The SustainabilityX® Magazine Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards™ 2024 is a profound honor for Dr. Anna Benjamin, validating her lifelong dedication to addressing the world’s most pressing climate challenges. This recognition underscores her commitment to bold innovation, from reducing emissions through policy reforms to advising cutting-edge prop-tech start-ups. It highlights the impact of her efforts to integrate sustainability into financial decision-making and amplify women's voices in the field. For Anna, this award is both a personal and professional milestone, inspiring her to continue leveraging data, policy, and collaboration to drive transformative change and build a greener, more equitable future.
The SustainabilityX® Magazine Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards™ 2024
The SustainabilityX® Magazine proudly presents its third edition of the Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards™ for 2024. This annual recognition celebrates extraordinary female leaders who embrace boldness in their pursuit of groundbreaking sustainability initiatives, reshaping industries, and driving transformative change towards a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future.
This year also marks a broader strategic mission expansion for The SustainabilityX® Magazine, with a stronger focus on aligning with the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) in addition to the original foundation of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This evolutionary expansion reflects the magazine’s ongoing commitment to advancing women's leadership in sustainability while championing social equity, environmental stewardship, and inclusive growth.
“Empowering women to lead in sustainability is at the heart of our mission,” says Supriya Verma, founder of The SustainabilityX® Magazine and one of Corporate Knights' Canada’s Top 30 Under 30 in Sustainability Leadership and one of The Peak's Emerging Leaders. “These trailblazers are breaking barriers and redefining what sustainable leadership looks like—showing that it’s about more than policies and practices, but also about social justice, economic resilience, and a regenerative future.”
Rooted in the magazine's guiding pillars of environmental protection, economic prosperity, social inclusion, and ethical governance, The SustainabilityX® Magazine's Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards™ showcases women from all sectors, industries, and regions, igniting crucial conversations on the intersection of gender equality and sustainable development.
Amidst global challenges and uncertainties, this year’s awards highlight the critical role of women in steering the world towards a more resilient, equitable future. With a continued digital format, the awards amplify voices across borders, bridging the gap between global sustainability efforts and local impact.
As Verma states, “The future of sustainability hinges on bold, inclusive leadership, and these women exemplify the courage and vision needed to transform our world. The SustainabilityX® Magazine remains steadfast in our mission to celebrate and elevate those who are shaping a future where every voice counts and every effort contributes to a thriving, sustainable world.”
View the full list: The SustainabilityX® Magazine Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards 2024
Read the full press release: The SustainabilityX® Magazine Announces 3rd Annual Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards™ Under the Theme "Embrace Boldness"
About The SustainabilityX® Magazine
The SustainabilityX® Magazine is an award-winning, digital, female-founded, and female-led non-profit initiative bringing the environment and economy together for a sustainable future through dialogue, and now transforming the environment and economy for a sustainable future through the power of women's leadership. Founded on May 8, 2016, and inspired by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by Canada's Top 30 Under 30 in Sustainability Leadership awardee, Supriya Verma, the digital media initiative focuses on approaching the world's most pressing challenges with a holistic, integrated, systems-based perspective as opposed to the traditional and ineffective siloed approach with a single lens on interdisciplinary topics like climate and energy. This initiative ultimately seeks to explore how to effectively bring the environment and economy together through intellectual, insightful dialogue and thought-provoking discussion amongst individuals across sectors taking an interdisciplinary and integrated approach to untangling the intricate web of sustainability while championing women's leadership in sustainability.
The SustainabilityX® Magazine is built upon the four foundational pillars of sustainability: Environmental Stewardship, which emphasizes the importance of improving environmental health; Economic Prosperity, which promotes sustainable economic growth that transcends traditional capitalist models; Social Inclusion, which focuses on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) for BIPOC, LGBTQ, and other marginalized or vulnerable communities; and Just Governance, which highlights responsible leadership, the equal application of the rule of law, and the creation of fair systems for all.
As we expand our mission to align with the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), we continue to explore the diverse and interconnected factors that influence sustainability. By recognizing how these elements interact across local, national, and international levels, we aim to accelerate progress toward sustainability goals. In essence, this aligns with The SustainabilityX® Magazine's vision of integrating environmental and economic progress for a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future through thoughtful dialogue.
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