Louise Hilsen draws on more than three decades of public policy experience in Washington, DC and in-house experience as a senior executive for Nestlé USA. She offers a deep understanding of the public policy & communication challenges that uniquely affect global corporations and helps leaders reach key influencers and stakeholders. Ms. Hilsen helped lead Nestlé’s CSR activities in the US. She has worked on a wide variety of CSR projects with IMPACT ROI supporting the food and agriculture sector, the tech sector, and retail sectors.

Ms. Hilsen is an active Advisory Council member of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is on the boards of the Food Research & Action Center, a public policy advocacy group to improve nutrition and eliminate domestic hunger, and Bread for the City, the largest provider of holistic social services to low income DC residents. She previously served on the boards of the Center for Global Freedom and St. Peter’s School (Washington, DC), was an organizer of the Race, Gender and Power Conference with Professor Anita Hill and Georgetown University Law Center, and was involved with the founding of Refugees International.

Ms. Hilsen spent a year in Colombia as an exchange student with the American Field Services. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a degree in Spanish and Ethnic Studies.