Dan Bena

Dan is an award-winning executive who served as PepsiCo’s Corporate Water Steward, and led the Sustainable Development agenda for PepsiCo Global Operations, using the power of the private sector to help both business and society flourish. He has served on the Public Health Committee of the Safe Water Network; the Leadership Group of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD); Steering Board of IFC’s 2030 Water Resources Group; Steering Committee of the United Nations CEO Mandate; the Global Agenda Council on Water Security of the World Economic Forum; and the Board of the International Society of Beverage Technologists. Bena completed a three-year term on the Board of the Washington-based U.S Water Alliance, and currently serves on the Board of the Creative Visions Foundation, a non-profit using media and the arts to develop agents of positive social change. Their signature program, called Rock Your World, engages middle and high school students in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and provides them the tools with which to become creative activists.

He was invited to provide testimony to the U.S Senate and keynoted the United Nations Youth Assembly to over 1,000 youth delegates from over 100 countries. Bena received the Light Up the Night Award from the Julia B. Andrus Foundation for youth advocacy and engagement and was recently named a “Global Goals Local Leader” by the UN Association for his role in the partnerships which have provided over 16 million people with access to safe water, thereby helping to advance the SDGs.