Chair of The Magenta Project

Jonquil Hackenberg

Jonquil is consulting partner and Global Head of Sustainability & Climate Response at PA Consulting. She is Chair of The Magenta Project, a charity committed to diversity (…)

She is Chair of The Magenta Project, a charity committed to diversity and inclusion leading on gender across the sailing racing industry, and sits as lead of innovation on the Futures Council for SDG Investment at the World Economic Forum.

Her focus is on how climate response strategies and action can generate tangible value through scaled-up innovation around the nexus of water, energy and waste. She has over 20 years’ experience in business change, leading supply chain redesign and complex sustainability-related programmes as well as corporate strategy advisory underpinned by climate response. A passionate advocate of climate, Jonquil is a lead mentor for the Ocean Impact Investment Fund, Katapult Ocean (SDG14 – Life Below Water) and a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin on the MBA Renewables programme. She has a modern languages degree from the University of Birmingham UK, an MBA in Renewable Energy from Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin Germany and an executive leadership certification from Stanford, USA. In her spare time she sails Fireflies out of Lymington, UK.