Julia is the Co-founder of the Think Tank AlterContacts. She is an Award-Winning Entrepreneur with more than a decade of experience in Sustainability. She designs and leads audacious social impact initiatives and SDG Acceleration Actions recognized by the United Nations and the European Parliament.

Julia is an EU-registered Expert on Sustainable Entrepreneurship and an Expert on Rural Development for the Youth Department of the European Commission. She regularly shares her knowledge as an author of 50+ articles on sustainable entrepreneurship and social innovation; and as a guest speaker and facilitator at 100+ conferences, including TEDx and the United Nations MSMEs Day 2021. She was also a guest lecturer at Epoka University (Albania) and the MBA program of the Anahuac Mayab University (Mexico).

Before co-founding the Think Tank, Julia was a strategic advisor on Digital Innovation at the executive level for a Fortune 500 company. Previous to that, she was responsible for communications, stakeholder engagement, and third-party advocacy at a FTSE 50 company.

Originally, Julia comes from the Arctic region. She wrote and taught two university courses on Northern Development. She is one of the authors of the Barents Encyclopedia.