Anne Marie Thodsen

Anne Marie Thodsen is the Managing Director of The Umbrella Institute, a UAE based ESG & Sustainability advisory.

The Umbrella Institute is specialized in business behaviour and triple bottom line transformation, ESG & Sustainability reporting, and program development.

Thodsen’s passion lies in empowering leaders taking action their organizational triple bottom line impact - And advocating the effects of the change to other business leaders. According to Anne Marie Thodsen ESG represents a pivot in the way corporate communication is handled: ESG is disclosing intentions with ethical and moral implications, and as such introducing greater transparency and opening the company up to a new set of investors and stakeholders with a responsibility focused portfolio.

Thodsen is a serial entrepreneur who has worked in the area of sustainability and corporate responsibility for more than a decade. She has been involved in business transformation at the operational level, as the GM in a Middle Eastern construction company and owner of a green storage facility in Denmark.

Thodsen’s work is based the firm knowledge that companies who share openly and act responsibly, drives greater engagement and ultimately have a more loyal customer base and sustainable income for the long-term.

/ Master’s degree in Comparative Literature & Information Science, Aarhus University, Denmark

/ Sustainable Business Strategy, Harvard Business School Online, United States

/ Social Impact Strategy, University of Pennsylvania, United States