Danielle Burt

Danielle Burt is a gender equality expert and advocate focused on driving gender equality in the private sector, with a particular focus on the power of gender data and accountability. Most recently, she served as the Gender Lead at the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), building a Gender Benchmark that assesses and compares the world’s most influential companies on how they drive gender equality and women’s empowerment across their full value chains. Prior to joining WBA, Danielle spent the first ~15 years of her career in the private sector – including strategy consulting at McKinsey & Company and strategy and marketing at Nike. She was born and raised in Miami, studied at Duke (BA) and Stanford (MBA), and has called Amsterdam home for the last 13 years, where she shares her life with her husband and two children.