Andrea is founder and CEO of GEC Risk Advisory, a governance, risk, ESG, tech and cyber advisor to business, NGOs, and government. A former senior global corporate executive (Bertelsmann, Verint, PSEG), she serves on several boards and advisory boards (Cyber Future Foundation, NACD New Jersey Chapter, Athena Alliance & WireX Systems). She is Independent Ethics Advisor to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, Independent ESG & Integrity Advisor to the Platform for Social Impact and Founding Faculty for both the Institute for Directors Malaysia Mandatory ESG Governance Certification Program and the Diligent Institute’s Certification in AI and Ethics Oversight.
Andrea is Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the recipient of numerous awards including the 2023 Diligent Governance 100, 2022 NACD Directorship 100, 2019 Cyber Future Foundation Futurist of the Year and DCRO Institute’s 2018 Risk Governance Exemplar Award. She is a NACD Governance Leadership Fellow, holds the Carnegie Mellon Cyber Oversight Certificate, and has served as Adjunct Faculty at NYU. She was named Senior Non–Resident Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU for 2024–2025.
Andrea is a global keynote speaker, and multiple book author, including Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value (Routledge 2020) and the annual ESGT Megatrends Manual (Diplomatic Courier). She is now working on a new book titled “Governing Pandora: Leading in the Age of Generative AI and Exponential Technology” to be published in 2025 by Georgetown University Press. She received her Joint JD in Law and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, was raised in Germany and Spain, speaks several languages and lives in New York City.