Fiona Banister
Innovative Strategist - Global Impact
Fiona Banister is a multidisciplinary catalyst for human rights, social good, climate resilience and sustainable development worldwide. Her goal is to create positive impact and innovate change. With a global team of scientists, farmers, technologists, social impact investors, youth and family offices, she is curating the deep decarbonization impact investing climate summits and ongoing panel series: decarbonized.org. Aligned with an international network, her current focus is on cultivating core impact projects that help the environment and empower humans to invest and participate with the lens of the 17 UN SDG Goals. This includes collaboration on sustainable infrastructure for regenerative forest holdings (Arboreal), ocean technology, inclusive health technology, renewable energy, eco-green low-income housing, blockchain, fin-tech, IoT, organic food and micro-finance. Driving for an equal access to opportunities for the “inbanked”, she is involved in a disruptive fin-tech banking system using a smart biometric ID/wallet for peer-to-peer payment technology. Ethernom.com. Fiona and family are impact investing members of Toniic.com and they participate with Nexusglobal.org groups. She is an alliance builder for conservation and sustainable projects: Oceaneos.org, Soileos.com, Futuroforestal.com, Thegenerationforest.com, Amazonaid.org, Mcmef.org, Wildbirdtrust.com. Inspired by the vital human rights actions of the Indian environmental lawyer M.C.Mehta, she is advocating for environmental education programs so to cultivate the next generations as our climate leaders and stewards. As a trained Waldorf teacher, parent, biodynamic gardener, herbalist and yogi, her alchemy is in respecting biomimicry and learning lessons from nature. 🌎Fiona believes that if you can see a problem, then you can collaborate to create the impact solution and plant an organic seed for the next generation to grow.🌱