Mary Johnstone-Louis

Mary is Co-Director of the online Oxford Leading Sustainable Corporations and on-campus Oxford Sustainable Business programmes. The former has trained more than 5,000 participants to date in more than 70 countries. Mary is a Skoll Centre Fellow, Senior Associate of Oxford Net Zero, and member of Oxford’s St Cross College.

Mary publishes on a wide range of sustainability topics including women in business, the role of private and family businesses in sustainability, and governance. She has worked on five continents including fieldwork in Bangladesh, South Africa and Latin America and serves as an adviser to several impact-focused businesses in the UK and Europe.

She has also served as a World Economic Forum Global Futures Council Fellow, a jury member for a range of awards including the IMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award and the WE Empower United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Challenge, and as Founding Director of The Ownership Project. She is a board member of Blueprint for Better Business and Chair of B Lab UK.

Mary is a regular speaker, moderator, and panellist. Her written contributions have been featured in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Business Ethics Quarterly, and in the United Nations Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education series as well as on Saïd Business School's Oxford Answers and the British Academy.

Mary holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford, a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and studied at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She received her doctorate from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford as an Economic and Social Research Council scholar.

Expertise:

• responsible business
• stakeholder governance
• leadership and business ethics
• sustainable business