Victoria Gilchrist

Victoria Gilchrist is a focused, driven, seasoned international business leader with proven successes in creating strategy and driving implementation in responsible sourcing, sustainability, and social justice initiatives. She is an engaging visionary, who inspires cross-functional teams to establish goals and execute environmental, social, and governance strategy (ESG), and foster a sustainability mindset to drive employee well-being and satisfaction, meet regulatory and customer requirements, and bolster corporate citizenship.

From leading teams in sustainability and human rights at ASM, Intel, Amazon Web Services to providing logistic and business insights for the American Red Cross to Maersk, Victoria has been recognized for outstanding organizational leadership, innovation, integrity, business savvy, with superb communication and interpersonal skills. Victoria is a regular national conference speaker on sustainability and human rights, and is a TEDx speaker.

In her free time, Victoria focuses on combatting the various forms of social injustice and human trafficking that exist around the world. She has lived in/travelled to six continents, the experiences of which have contributed to her desire to not only love the world but to help shape it for the better. Her work with Hope for Children, Ethiopia centers around extracting children from forced labor and sex trafficking into rehabilitation programs that not only strive to heal their emotional scars, but train them for jobs so that they can independently re-enter society. In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Victoria partnered with the local chapter of Not for Sale, which works to interrupt the cycle of sex trafficking and abuse in the Red

Light District by providing restaurant trade internships to women seeking to escape the sex trade. She was able to tie the idea of using artificial intelligence to tackle sex trafficking at large sporting events in her TEDx Talk, Giving AI a Sporting Chance.

Victoria earned her Masters in Sustainability from Arizona State University, her MBA from University of Southern California, and her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, where she was a Ridley Scholar. Victoria is bilingual in English and Spanish.