Dr. Antoncic is currently Senior Advisor to the UN on ESG and SDG Reporting, advising and assisting UNCTAD on policy frameworks for enterprise sustainability and reporting. She serves on the Board of Directors of S&P Global Ratings; FinTech Masala Advisors’ various SPACS; and the Board of Overseers of Weill Cornell Medicine and the Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions and of the Journal of A.I., Robotics & Workplace Automation.

She is a former Vice-President and Treasurer of the World Bank where, in addition to her financial responsibilities, she oversaw several developing economy capacity building programs across her Vice Presidency Unit. She is known for her leadership in financial innovation and implementation of national climate-related catastrophic risk mitigation structures to help countries mitigate and transfer climate-related catastrophic risk to the markets, providing financial protection and financial resilience to countries.

Most recently Dr. Antoncic served as CEO of Global Algorithmic Institute (G-AI.org), an early-stage start-up NGO using Big Data to track corporate ESG and SDG reporting. Prior to that she was CEO of SASB.

Her experience spans global markets across all asset classes in large, complex, global financial institutions in both the private and public sector. Dr. Antoncic began her career as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, followed by various senior market roles at Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers and Principal Global Investors.

She is internationally known as a recognized industry leader and expert on risk management, ESGs and SDGs, and on governance and has published on climate-induced catastrophic risk, ESGs, SDGs, and other risk topics.

She is a frequent speaker on sustainability, including at the UN General Assembly SDG Business Forum Plenary and at UNCTAD-ISAR.

Her awards include First Prize Honoree of the International UNCTAD-ISAR Honours 2020, with GAI for Harmonizing Corporate Sustainability; the Fulbright Scholars award; National Partnership for Women and Families award for Leadership; Risk Manager of the Year; named among the 100 Most Influential People in Finance; Stern Women in Business, Distinguished Alumna award; and the Girl Scouts Annual Tribute award.

She holds a PhD in Economics, a minor in Finance from New York University, was an Alfred P Sloan Foundation Doctoral Fellow and has taught at NYU Stern’s graduate and undergraduate schools.