Biography

Jessica is the Chief Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Officer at Diginex.  Jessica has spent over a decade working in the sustainability ecosystem, leading advisory services and public-private partnerships. Previously, she managed her own consultancy firm Ignis Consulting from 2016-2018, advising the World Bank, German Development Cooperation (GIZ), WBCSD, and small and mid-cap enterprises in emerging markets on sustainability strategy and scaling impact. Jessica served as an Associate Director at the World Economic Forum in NYC and Geneva from 2008 – 2015. She was a Global Leadership Fellow of the World Economic Forum from 2012-15 and served as a Financial Market Executive from 2004 - 2005 at Thomson Reuters. She also acted as a Non-Executive Director of an LSE AIM-listed company, Obtala Limited from 2016 – 2018. Jessica holds an Executive Master’s in Leadership from Wharton, Columbia, LBS and INSEAD, an Executive Master in Business Administration from IE Business School in Madrid and a Master’s Degree in Development from the Graduate Institute of International Relations in Geneva.