Profile

Brindusa Burrows is Founder & CEO of Ground_Up Project - an impact / SDG investing intermediary based in Switzerland. She is currently piloting an approach to systematize SDG-investing in emerging markets, in partnership with the United Nations SDG Lab in Geneva and in collaboration with UNCDF, UND and UN DCO.Between 2015-2018, Brindusa co-led GREEN-WIN - a multi-disciplinary international research project with Oxford University, SciencePo Paris, Potsdam University and Barcelona UAT and partners in China, Indonesia, Italy, South Africa.  Previously with the World Economic Forum, Brindusa designed and led for the G20 a multi-country program that designed public and private financing instruments for green growth. Brindusa advised the first sustainability strategy of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), she is a mentor to the G20 Global Infrastructure Challenge, an advisory board member of the Swiss Economic Forum Circular Economy Community and of the Romanian Business Leaders Foundation. At the Graduate Institute she lectured the Executive Course on Financing the Sustainable Development Goals in 2019 and 2020.