Melissa Shackleton Dann has spent 30 years building, leading, and serving non-profit and for-profit ventures and the federal government. She spent 12 years in private philanthropy, beginning her career as a program officer and culminating as executive director at the Wallace Global Fund. Melissa has worked across a range of environmental, economic, and social issues such as climate change, market-based mechanisms, human rights, and financial institutional reform. She played a strategic role in the evolution of the environmental, social, and governance movement (ESG), backing efforts that led to the recognition that these conditions are financially material. Melissa led efforts within the foundation and NGO communities that exposed how projects subsidized by export-credit agencies, the world’s largest source of public international finance, often had damaging environmental and social consequences. Earlier in her career, she managed two programs for the US-Asia Environmental Partnership, an inter-agency Presidential initiative led by USAID that sought to address environmental degradation and sustainable development issues in Asia and the Pacific.