Welcome
Melinda Miklos is a pioneering ESG Strategist with a deep and unique understanding of the interplay of market and non-market forces that shape ESG-driven value creation opportunities and potential positive stakeholder impact at scale.
For over a decade, Melinda has advised C-suite executives and boards on understanding their ESG action potential and viable ESG value propositions in complex geopolitical environments.
More recently, she has extended her expertise to private markets investors, following her Postgraduate Master's at the University of Oxford where she wrote her thesis on ESG-driven value creation in private equity.
My Story
I have ten years of experience engaging and advising 100+ C-suite business leaders from multinational companies, small and mid-size businesses, and startups in finance, technology, energy, industrial, and creative industries. I helped companies improve ESG actions and value propositions in different lifecycle stages: after new market entry, acquisition, exponential growth, new investor's arrival, and during internal transformations.
I am a co-founder - together with Google -, former CEO, and Board Member of WeAreOpen, an ESG-focused social enterprise and probably the largest business coalition in Europe improving S&G in ESG at scale, with 1,130+ member companies in Hungary, in a highly complex political environment. I served on the Board with Citi's Central Eastern European CEO, Google's Communications Strategy and Operation Head, EMEA, and Unilever Food Solution's North Eastern European Managing Director.
I regularly spoke in front of millions in the leading national TV channel's evening news, delivered speeches at top international business conferences, and built trusted relationships with stakeholders in and beyond Europe.
Multiple awards and Global Boards of multinational companies recognized our work.
I earned an ESG Investing Certificate from the CFA Institute and hold Master's degrees in Economics, Communications, and Organizational Psychology. I have utilized my interdisciplinary approach both in my early career years as Press Office Lead for Google and in my years as I built a social enterprise that was much ahead of its time and generated exceptional impact.
I'm a member of Mensa International, a society for gifted people. I'm passionate about helping other talented women fulfill their potential.
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I speak English, Hungarian, and German and study Italian.
