Lorin Fries is the Founder and Lead Partner of FutureTable, advising impact-oriented leaders using technology and innovation toward regenerative food and ecological systems. She is also the Strategic Lead for Blue Climate Initiative. Lorin recently worked as Head of Food Systems Collaboration at the World Economic Forum. She advises Fortune 500 food and tech businesses, entrepreneurs and start-ups, VCs, international organizations, family foundations and NGOs. As a thought leader on ecological system change, she has published insights including with the Harvard Business Review, Harvard Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, via a Forbes column and in an Oxford University Press book on Food Citizenship. Lorin received a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
At the Blue Climate Summit: While Lorin is a driving force behind the Summit, she will attend in spirit only. She and her husband are preparing to welcome their first child in the Spring.