Tiffany Apczynski is vice president of public policy and social impact at Zendesk, a customer support software company founded in Denmark, with its global headquarters in San Francisco. In this role, she drafted the City of San Francisco’s first-ever Community Benefits Agreement, a controversial piece of policy borne out of legislation tied to pre-IPO tech companies. Other policy work includes serving on San Francisco’s Workforce Investment Board from 2012-2016, founding the Mid-Market Business Association in 2014, and sitting on the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association’s Tech Council since 2014. She is a passionate supporter of the arts and currently serves as the vice president of the board of directors for the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. 

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Alison leads BSR’s sustainability management practice and oversees the supply chain practice and the Sustainable Futures Lab. She previously led BSR’s energy and extractives practice. She focuses on approaches to sustainability through risk management, strategy, stakeholder engagement, transparency, ethics and governance, and organizational change.

Previously, Alison was a senior managing director at Control Risks, where she helped companies operate with integrity, particularly in high-risk environments. She has also worked at Transparency International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IHS Global Insight. She has experience in strategic intelligence, market entry assistance, risk consulting, due diligence, internal investigations, enterprise risk management, and ethics and compliance. She speaks and writes regularly on risk and organizational culture. She is a board member of the ethics organization Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School and the Gabelli Business School.

Alison holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Modern History from Balliol College, Oxford University.

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