Sophie Krantz is an explorer. Occasionally on mountains, often at sea, always with business leaders around the world.
Sophie Krantz is a global strategist with over 20 years’ experience in international trade, investment, and strategic management. She has led projects across 20+ countries, working with Global Fortune 500s, ASX200 firms, and the United Nations on initiatives valued up to US$1 billion.
Her career began exporting food and wine into Asia and the Middle East, before moving to Geneva to lead national and sectoral export strategies with the International Trade Centre (the joint agency of UNCTAD and the WTO). She then built advisory boards in key emerging markets and global partnerships at Swiss Re in Zurich, before representing BlueScope in Australia’s trade negotiations with China, Japan, Korea, RCEP and the CPTPP.
Now based between regions, Sophie helps companies grow smarter, leveraging intangible assets, global networks, and frontier technologies.
She is a certified practitioner of the Exponential Organizations (ExO) framework, advising Global Fortune 2000 firms on how to shift from traditional structures to scalable, tech-enabled business models and ventures built for the future of business.
Sophie sits on the Advisory Board of the Ethical Trade Alliance and is the author of ‘Global Amplifiers: Strategies to Think and Act Bigger in a Changing World’ and the forthcoming book ‘Trade+: De-Risk and Diversify Exports in 90 Days’.
