Dr. Christina Tewes-Gradl is a Co-Founder and Managing Director, and she is an expert on inclusive business and system innovation. Christina works with partners from all sectors to enable an economic transformation that benefits people and planet. She loves working towards a food system that nourishes everyone and benefits small farmers. Her stems from growing up in the countryside and working with with small farmers all over the world since 2005. Other areas of expertise include tourism, partnerships, policies that drive responsible business, business ecosystems and systems change. Her +30 publications include many flagship reports on these topics. She regularly speaks at events and facilitates workshops. She enjoys working in partnership with others and organizing effective collaboration across sectors.

Christina Tewes-Gradl loves to innovate with diverse players at systems level and is passionate about ending poverty and a regenerative and just food system. She has almost 20 years of experience in advising on sustainability, strategy and development issues and has authored +25 publications. Christina is a former Research Fellow at the CSR Initiative of the Harvard Kennedy School, Strategic Advisor to the UNDP Growing Inclusive Markets initiative and Kofi Annan Fellow on Global Governance. She holds a PhD on the business model concept from the University of Halle-Wittenberg and Masters degrees from the University of Passau and LSE.  Previously, Christina worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey&Co and with rice farmers in Madagascar.