About Anne-Cécile Turner

Anne-Cécile is an experienced practitioner who has undertaken sustainability education programmes at Harvard Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership, graduated from Tavistock Institute and been part of WWF’s One Planet Leaders Programme. She has more than twenty years of solid international experience in marketing, sponsorship and management across the worlds of brands, NGOs, media, sport and sustainability.

In 2009, she founded Blueshift, an agency specialised in sustainability consulting with a mission to help organisations on their voyage to a more sustainable future. The organisation has developed a specific focus on promoting sport as a powerful force for positive change. In 2011, Anne-Cécile joined Race for Water Foundation as Director. The Foundation’s aim was to identify, implement and promote solutions for a new social circular economy with a focus on plastic waste, water preservation and ocean health.

In 2016, she joined the Volvo Ocean Race, as Sustainability Programme Leader, in order to assist the global sporting event in its journey to reduce environmental impact, optimise sustainability potential and use the power of the race to create positive change in ocean health on a global scale. As Sustainability Director, she drives The Ocean Race’s ‘Racing with Purpose’ programme whose objective is to act as a catalyst to help accelerate the restoration of ocean health.