Senior Associate

Ian Lobo

Ian has 25 years’ experience leading consulting engagements in growth strategy, social innovation, shared value partnerships and new venture start-ups. An accredited Partnership Broker and skilled facilitator, he has worked with leading social impact companies (Unilever, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Google), United Nations agencies (WHO, WFP, UNICEF), Foundations (Rockefeller Foundation, Shell Foundation, UN Foundation), International NGOs (Aspen Institute, Fair Trade, World Vision, The Nature Conservancy), and partnerships (World Economic Forum’s SAGCOT & Grow Asia, Medicines Patent Pool, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves).
Ian is passionate about community-led systems transformation and has led collective impact initiatives to create employment opportunities for refugees and marginalized youth, accelerate access to medicines in low income countries, and expand energy access in rural communities.
In 2017, after 20 years living abroad in London, Geneva, Sydney, Nairobi, and São Paulo, Ian returned to Toronto, continuing to work globally as well as at home in Canada.