My name is Georgie Passalaris (MTSC 2015) and I am a member of the pioneer cohort of the Master of Tri-Sector Collaboration.
I was recently appointed as Head, Impact Management and Measurement, for the Platform for Global Public Goods at the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Geneva, Switzerland.
The WEF is committed to improving the world through public-private cooperation. It engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. The Platform for Global Public Goods is a system leader and platform curator for the environment and natural resources agenda, food security, development finance and sustainable development activities at the WEF.
As the Head of Impact Measurement and Management, my role is to institutionalise and maintain innovative and practical approaches in impact measurement. I collaborate with teams to measure, manage and communicate the impact of donor-funded platforms, to help stakeholders scale transformational change and impact across the global commons, and support the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Paris Agreement climate goals.
Prior to the appointment, I spent 13 years working at Diageo, a global leader in the beverage alcohol industry. There, I led a global women’s empowerment programme as part of my global sustainability role, which reached hundreds of thousands of women with valuable skills training.
The years spent consulting independently thereafter allowed me to gain a different skill-set and nurture new relationships, which ultimately led to my transition to the WEF.
Returning to my roots, my education in SMU has hugely contributed to my success: the relationships I forged with fellow students and University lecturers, and professors, all of whom introduced new concepts, challenges and collaborations that have proven so valuable over the last few years.
I continue to find inspiration in the incredible resilience of adaptability of the people around me. As Mahatma Gandhi said, “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change”.
The incredible resilience of people and their adaptability inspires me. Most of all, I find the world that we live in is infinitely worth safeguarding and nurturing as, without it, we are nothing.
