Senior Vice President, Private Sector Engagement, World Wildlife Fund
Sheila Bonini leads the private sector engagement team at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), overseeing a team of sustainability professionals supporting the organization’s conservation mission. She works with more than 100 companies on sustainability sourcing and awareness-raising, all with the goal of harnessing the power of the private sector as a force for conservation.
Sheila joined WWF from The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), a global organization focused on making consumer products more sustainable, where she served as Chief Executive Officer. In that capacity, she focused the organization on developing strategies and tools across the full product lifecycle that help to transform consumer goods supply chains. Prior to joining TSC, Sheila spent more than 15 years with the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company in the U.S., Europe and South America. Sheila served as senior expert consultant and co-leader of McKinsey’s Sustainability Transformation Service, and her work focused on the link between social and environmental impact and financial value creation. Prior experience includes investment banking at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.
Sheila received an AB degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.