Monique Villa

Monique Villa is CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She has been ranked among the world’s 100 most influential people in Business Ethics by Ethisphere. Since her appointment in 2008, she has transformed the Foundation, launching a number of groundbreaking programmes that leverage the expertise of Thomson Reuters to trigger change and empower people across the world. Among them, TrustLaw, an award-winning service created in 2010 to spread the practice of pro bono worldwide by connecting the best law firms with NGOs and social enterprises in need of free legal assistance; and Trust Women, a fast growing global movement to put the rule of law behind women’s rights through concrete action. Under Villa, the Foundation’s award-winning editorial team covers issues that mainstream media often forget: from women’s rights abuses to the human impact of climate change.