About Katherine Brown

Katherine Brown is responsible for guiding and supporting Visa Europe and its clients to achieve their goals in a way that benefits people and planet. Katherine has accelerated Visa’s ambition to actively promote sustainable consumption and behaviors through the launch of a Recommerce platform to enable and grow the circular economy, and brought to bear the key role of payments in the financial empowerment of displaced people. In her previous roles as Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at World Economic Forum, as Head of Europe & Eurasia for the Forum of Young Global Leaders, and as a Senior Advisor to IMD Business School, Katherine has developed a deep understanding of, and passion for, actuating the drivers of systems-level change, which she is applying this in her role at Visa. Katherine Brown holds Master’s degrees from The London Business School (MBA) and the Global Leadership Fellows Programme of the World Economic Forum (The Wharton School, INSEAD, CEIBS, Columbia University, and LBS), and a BA from Kenyon College. A demonstrated thought leader and global citizen with over 25 years of professional experience centered around entrepreneurial endeavors, strategy, and catalyzing multi-stakeholder interaction. She engages top business, government, and civil society leaders in initiatives and activities aimed at creating positive social and environmental change in the business world. In essence, her day job is transforming complexity into concrete action and navigating ambiguity to find shared value.