Marjella Lecourt-Alma is the CEO and co-founder of Datamaran. Marjella leads a diverse team of more than 120 ESG experts, data scientists, commercial executives, and technology professionals. She is globally recognized as a thought leader and is regularly featured in the media, including the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Economist, and CNBC’s Power Lunch.
She commissioned and directed the world’s first documentary on corporate sustainability and ESG, called the “New Heroes of Sustainable Business” which premiered at Climate Week NYC in 2023. The award-winning film amplifies the voices of business leaders who have gone beyond compliance and are championing a smart way to ESG. The documentary has been a lifeline to executives in charge of ESG for the first time, giving them the confidence to become sustainability heroes in their own right.
At 30, Marjella became the youngest female Director of the Global Reporting Initiative - the most widely used standard for measuring and managing ESG issues. She joined the GRI headquarters in Amsterdam in 2007 where she successfully set up the Services Department.
Marjella is also an Advisory Board Member and Ambassador to the Bachelor of Science Global Responsibility & Leadership program at Campus Fryslân - University of Groningen.
