Andrea Bonime-Blanc, JD/PhD, is founder & CEO of GEC Risk Advisory, a governance, risk, ethics, cyber and tech advisor to business, NGOs, and government. A former c-suite executive, she serves on several boards and advisory boards and is Independent Ethics Advisor to the Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico. She is a recipient of numerous awards including the 2023 Diligent Governance 100, and 2022 NACD Directorship 100. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a keynote speaker and book author, including Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value (Routledge 2020). Her next book for Georgetown University Press on the governance of exponential technology will be published in 2025. She was born and raised in Germany and Spain and resides in New York City.