Julia Armstrong D’Agnese is an innovator and change-maker and as Earth Knowledge CEO drives strategic partnerships and big-picture transformational opportunities to help build a more sustainable world. She has been selected as one of the Top 100 Women in Cloud Founders for 2023. Julia inspires highly successful work such as with Microsoft where Earth Knowledge has been selected as one of the top Climate and Sustainability partners for #BuildFor2030. She co-led the Earth Knowledge Portal, the first to market sustainability portal, with Google, BBC, Guardian, WWF which 80% of the countries of the world accessed. Julia was key in the Obama White House Climate Data Initiative work with the development and launch of PREP (Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness).

In financial services, she has co-authored thought leadership with EY and Microsoft including “Waking up to Nature: a biodiversity imperative for financial services,” WWF and the World Bank “Geospatial ESG” and “Spatial Finance” and has presented at conferences such as the Swiss Sustainable Finance in Zurich. Julia holds a BS in Spanish and Business with International Studies from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, an MS in Psychology from the University of Arizona, and a post-graduate degree on dynamics of success in business, leadership, innovation and change management.