March 2024 Employee Spotlight - Celebrating Amber Webb!

Through our employee spotlight campaign, the SDSN showcases our amazing employees and volunteers to honor and celebrate the incredible strides they are making toward advancing SDSN's mission.

This month, we are spotlighting Amber Webb, Managing Director of the SDG Academy! We asked Amber five questions about herself and her work with the SDSN. Read on to learn more.

Which SDG are you most passionate about?

SDG 4: Quality Education

What is the best part about working at the SDSN?

The SDSN offers a unique space to link policy with the critical expertise of scholars around the world. I love being an interlocutor to that process!

What is something that you are proud to have accomplished while working at the SDSN?

Our SDG Academy content is now hosted on platforms that reach up to 100 million learners. As a small team, we have truly shot for the moon and are proud to be fueling the transformation towards sustainable development.

In one word, describe the 2030 Agenda.

Dynamic

What is a fun fact about you?

Following the 2015 earthquake, I had the opportunity to lead research teams in Nepal where we often spent days hiking up to mountain villages in the Himalayas. Never has my work taken me so far from humanity and so close to the power of nature.