Monica Ellis is the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF), a leading non-profit established in 1988 that designs and manages high-impact public-private partnerships, improving the lives of over 57 million people in over 100 countries.

A sustainable development leader, Monica has worked throughout the world on a range of natural resource and economic development issues, focusing particularly on clean water, climate, circularity, technology, health, and economic empowerment issues. She specializes in developing high impact partnerships with leading companies, government agencies, civil society, and philanthropists that result in resilient communities.

GETF manages the Partnership for a Circular Tomorrow (PACT) with support from The Coca-Cola Foundation, advancing innovative solutions, enterprises, and service delivery models that reduce packaging waste, strengthen local recycling systems, and promote inclusive waste management across the Eurasia and Middle East region.

As an advocate of innovation, she has also helped launch several successful companies and platforms in the environmental technology, information technology and communications sectors. She is a member/advisor to several boards, including GETF, DigDeep, Water For People, the Johns Hopkins University Global Water Advisory Board, US Water Partnership, the Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan, the Global Water Institute at the Ohio State University and Ketos. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri and a proud recipient of American University’s William K. Reilly Award for Environmental Leadership. 

Monica also serves as CEO of Global Water Challenge (GWC), an action-oriented coalition of corporations, NGOs and other organizations committed to achieving universal access to clean water and sanitation.  Under her leadership, GETF and GWC have mobilized over $350 million for clean water access and community development efforts that today benefits over 8 million people in Africa, Central and Latin America and India.