Anna Tunkel
Secretary
Anna is the founder of Sustainable Impact LLC, a global advisory firm that partners with leaders of technology unicorns, Fortune 500 companies, global foundations, and international organizations to design strategies and programs that drive both business growth and societal impact.
With over two decades of experience across the United Nations, a leading global advisory firm, and one of the world’s largest supply chain companies, Anna has shaped and led high-impact partnerships and initiatives for the World Bank, The Rockefeller Foundation, Fortune 500 companies including Johnson & Johnson, Meta, and IKEA, as well as prominent family offices.
She brings deep expertise in public affairs, strategic communications, systems thinking, and stakeholder engagement across diverse industries and markets. Her work spans building a global COP28 engagement program and forging strategic partnerships with multilateral organizations for one of the UAE’s leading companies; shaping and bringing to life a global engagement strategy to demystify fusion energy; advancing the use of AI for disaster preparedness and urban resilience; helping to launch one of the world’s largest new blockchain initiatives; and raising global awareness of urban water loss and the technologies addressing it.
Anna spent over a decade at APCO, a global majority women-owned public affairs and advisory firm, where she was part of the senior management team. She built a global practice, led teams across more than a dozen markets, including a two-year stint in China, and served as chief of staff to the founder and CEO following firm’s management buyout, contributing to the firm’s rapid growth and expansion.
Anna has extensive experience working with global agenda-setting platforms including the World Economic Forum, G20, COPs, the UN General Assembly, and influential emerging markets initiatives. She has served on six consecutive B20 Taskforces under the G20 Presidencies of Saudi Arabia, Italy, Indonesia, India, Brazil, and South Africa—contributing on issues including energy, climate, governance, and women’s leadership. She is a board director and alumna of Seeds of Peace and serves on the Advisory Board of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.
Anna holds a Master of Science degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and a BA in Political Science, Mandarin, and East Asian Studies from Tel Aviv University.
“Seeds of Peace is a transformational organization. Its programs, focused on youth leadership development are changing legacies of conflict, and are more relevant and pressing today than ever before. Seeds of Peace changed my life: I am fortunate to have first joined the organization as a young camper representing Israel back in 1995 and have remained involved ever since, now proudly serving on its Board.”