Lorraine Smith

Biography

Lorraine Smith is an Associate Director at Volans, collaborating with the team on the Breakthrough agenda since early 2016. With an aptitude for finding patterns, anomalies and possibilities within complex systems Lorraine has spent her career helping people understand new realities with a different mindset. Originally from Toronto, Canada and currently based in New York, since 2004 she has consulted with global corporations in many sectors including agriculture, food, apparel mining and metals, financial services, retail, consumer goods, and manufacturing. She has held senior positions at SustainAbility, where she now collaborates as an Associate, and at Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, where she currently sits on the Board. She is on the Review Committee of the Future Fit Business Benchmark, an open source tool that quantifies how businesses are contributing to a sustainable future.

Research Interest

Pharmaceutics, biotechnology, biomedical, drug delivery, Health Sciences, Sustainability