Justina Nixon-Saintil

Justina leads IBM’s efforts across skilled employee volunteerism, education partnerships, and curricula to invest in the future of work, with a groundbreaking commitment to skill 30 million people worldwide by 2030. Through a strategic focus on IBM’s free education program IBM SkillsBuild, Justina’s global team is creating opportunities for underrepresented communities, upskilling adult learners, and connecting high school and university students, and faculty with valuable new skills and career paths. As a trained engineer and a corporate leader, Justina has championed lifelong-learning to young learners and aspiring STEM professionals around the world. 

 

As IBM's Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) focal point, Justina also spearheads corporate practices that underpin the company's tradition of uncompromising ethics and transparency in its operations and environmental footprint. In 2022, Justina led the launch of IBM’s Sustainability Accelerator, which has been heralded as a “blueprint for corporate responsibility.” The IBM Sustainability Accelerator is a pro bono social impact program that applies IBM technologies and an ecosystem of experts to scale projects that support communities vulnerable to environmental threats, including climate change. Under Justina’s leadership, the program is already working with 10 organizations in projects related to sustainable agriculture and clean energy.

Previously, as director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Verizon, Justina created and led programs to make education more inclusive. She was also an Engineer for the U.S. Department of Energy.

 

Justina earned her Master of Business Administration from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.