United Kingdom

Stephanie Jowers, Chief Executive COIGNE, UK

Stephanie.Jowers@wbaforum.org
Stephanie Jowers has three decades of experience in environmental conservation, social entrepreneurship, community development, and technology innovation. She has worked across six continents with startups, business schools, innovation competitions, government ministries, wildlife conservancies, and nonprofit organizations. She is passionate about building entrepreneurial ecosystems and wildlife-enabled economies at scale to reduce wildlife crime and generational poverty in human-wildlife conflict zones. Stephanie has positioned social issues into greater relevance for a wide array of audiences and revamped stakeholder engagement models for global brands. In the early 90s, she helped establish America’s youth environmental movement into a powerful grassroots lobby with support from scientists, scholars, musicians, and Nobel Laureates. As a teenager, Stephanie played a key role in the California Desert Act in U.S. Congress – from ending a seven-year impasse to the bill’s final passage. She was Lead Scale Advisor for the USAID-funded Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge and Technology Scale Advisor to Zoological Society of London. As owner of a branding company, Stephanie created and led strategic workshops, marketing audits, brand architecture frameworks, and stakeholder focus groups for clients such as The United Nations Foundation, NASA, Mastek, The Nature Conservancy, Marriott International, and Coty. Post 9/11, she served in the US Peace Corps Small Business Development program in Tangier, Morocco; and then led membership and strategic relations at the National Peace Corps Association in Washington, DC. For a decade, Stephanie served as Mentor and Advisor to MBA students at Columbia Business School and The Lang Center for Entrepreneurship. She is a Tufts graduate and recipient of a Presidential Award for Citizenship and Public Service, the highest recognition for civic engagement and leadership at the University. Stephanie’s fieldwork (from Mozambique and India to Indonesia and Nicaragua) includes custom client deliverables, such as property audits, sustainable economic development feasibility studies, operations plans, village ecosystem overviews, and evaluation briefs. She is a member of The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas. Stephanie is Co-founder and Chief Executive of COIGNE Ltd, an emerging patient capital vehicle for locally owned enterprises in designated protected areas, economic buffer zones, and endangered conservation regions.