Marga Hoek

Politically engaged and part of the resistance movement in the Netherlands during World War II, Hoek's grandfather was an inspiration for her entrepreneurial spirit and drive to become a global influencer.

[6] In 2009, Marga Hoek was asked to establish the Dutch Sustainable Business Association De Groene Zaak in collaboration with several front running CEOs and companies, which later merged with MVO Netherlands.

[7][8] The mission of De Groene Zaak was to proliferate the transition to a sustainable economy, and it did so by jointly influencing public policies and science.

Marga Hoek has repositioned herself in a non-executive capacity as a high-level global speaker and author on sustainable business and financial capital.

[9][10] which leverages the experience and knowledge of global chairpersons to the benefit of newly appointed CEOs and Executive Committees of international companies.

[15] Her second book, The Trillion Dollar Shift was published by Routledge and launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 25, 2018.

[17] The Trillion Dollar Shift was also explicitly mentioned in Fortune as “required reading.”[18] Marga Hoek's third book Tech for Good is about how advanced technologies can accelerate the transition to a sustainable world while at the same time improve business profitability, market share, and multi-stakeholder return.