Meredith Balenske is a 2023 Millennium fellow and a global head of sustainability and ESG at GLP Capital Partners Limited. Most recently, Balenske served as a senior vice president at GLP, where she led the company’s global sustainability practice and oversaw global communications.

Balenske was formerly vice president at Revolution, a US-based venture capital firm with a social impact investment mandate called Rise of the Rest that invested in startups outside of Silicon Valley to support local economies and job creation. Prior to her work at Revolution, Balenske held positions at Fleishman Hillard, Bloomberg LP, and Animal Planet. She holds a bachelor of science from Virginia Tech.