SPEAKER,
JOURNALIST, ENTREPRENEUR, ADVISOR, FUTURIST.

2021 Women of Power

2019 GEN T Honoree

2-time TEDx Speaker

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2021 Women of Power, 2019 GEN T Honoree, 2 x TEDx Speaker & Asia's Green Queen:  Serial social entrepreneur & trends forecaster Sonalie Figueiras is the founder & editor-in-chief of Green Queen, an award-winning impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change through inspiring & empowering original content and one of the world's leading outlets for alternative protein news. Green Queen is APAC's largest sustainability media as counted by website views. She is also the founder & CEO of Ekowarehouse, the global sourcing platform for certified organic products and the co-founder & CEO of Source Green, the world's first climate tech SaaS platform that helps brands quit plastic waste (pre-seed funded in May 2021).

 

With over a decade of experience in publishing, digital marketing, organic trade, sustainability, alternative proteins and green packaging, she is a climate tech industry veteran with a keen eye for market trends and a sought-after international keynote speaker and moderator, sharing her expertise on stages across Asia and beyond, including Harvard Business School and two times at TEDx.

 

Further, Sonalie is a venture partner at APAC agrifood climate fund Better Bite Ventures and an operating advisor at European food and climate tech fund Mudcake and an advisor at US alternative protein fund Alwyn Capital. 

 

She is a board advisor at Food for Climate League, a US-based trailblazing, women-led nonprofit working to make climate-smart eating the norm, a global advisor at Social Ventures Hong Kong, an Impact Purpose Organisation committed to re-imagining Hong Kong as a purpose-driven city, an advisor at The Remedy Project, which revolutionises access to justice for migrant workers globally, a cause close to her heart.

 

An avid home cook, Sonalie is also a published cookbook author.