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Full Name
Virginia Yanquilevich
Job Title
CEO
Company
Dopper
Speaker Bio
Virginia Yanquilevich is a global changemaker, business leader and systems thinker who is challenging one of the world’s most accepted yet unnecessary industries: packaged water.
As CEO of Dopper, Virginia leads a movement to make refill the norm and accelerate access to safe drinking water for everyone, everywhere. Dopper is an impact-first company on a mission to end packaged water, proving that business can be a powerful force for positive change.
Under her leadership, Dopper has scaled its impact-first mission globally. Since its founding, Dopper has existed to drive positive change by reducing dependence on packaged water, accelerating refill culture and improving access to safe drinking water. Today, the company continues to demonstrate that commercial success and meaningful impact can go hand in hand.
Virginia is a passionate advocate for the idea that business can be a catalyst for large-scale societal transformation. Her work focuses on changing the systems, policies and behaviours that shape how people access and consume water. From influencing corporate practices and public policy to investing in community-led water access programmes, she champions solutions that create impact far beyond the boundaries of a single company.
Through Dopper’s mission, millions of single-use plastic bottles have been avoided, refill culture has been advanced across organizations and public spaces, and long-term partnerships have helped expand access to safe drinking water in underserved communities. Today, Virginia is helping to pioneer a new approach to impact: proving what works, sharing it openly and enabling others to scale solutions globally.
At the 2026 UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, Virginia brings a bold perspective on how purpose-driven businesses can redesign markets, shift behaviour, influence policy and become architects of the systemic change needed to build a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future.
Her vision is simple but ambitious: a world where refill is the norm, access to safe drinking water is a reality for all, and packaged water belongs to the past.
As CEO of Dopper, Virginia leads a movement to make refill the norm and accelerate access to safe drinking water for everyone, everywhere. Dopper is an impact-first company on a mission to end packaged water, proving that business can be a powerful force for positive change.
Under her leadership, Dopper has scaled its impact-first mission globally. Since its founding, Dopper has existed to drive positive change by reducing dependence on packaged water, accelerating refill culture and improving access to safe drinking water. Today, the company continues to demonstrate that commercial success and meaningful impact can go hand in hand.
Virginia is a passionate advocate for the idea that business can be a catalyst for large-scale societal transformation. Her work focuses on changing the systems, policies and behaviours that shape how people access and consume water. From influencing corporate practices and public policy to investing in community-led water access programmes, she champions solutions that create impact far beyond the boundaries of a single company.
Through Dopper’s mission, millions of single-use plastic bottles have been avoided, refill culture has been advanced across organizations and public spaces, and long-term partnerships have helped expand access to safe drinking water in underserved communities. Today, Virginia is helping to pioneer a new approach to impact: proving what works, sharing it openly and enabling others to scale solutions globally.
At the 2026 UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, Virginia brings a bold perspective on how purpose-driven businesses can redesign markets, shift behaviour, influence policy and become architects of the systemic change needed to build a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future.
Her vision is simple but ambitious: a world where refill is the norm, access to safe drinking water is a reality for all, and packaged water belongs to the past.
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