Paula Murphy Ives is Swiss and Canadian and has lived and worked in social impact around the world. She currently works at RBC with its largest and most strategic clients and families as Managing Director, Social Capital & Impact, Enterprise Strategic Client Group in Canada. She supports on integrating climate, ESG, impact investing and philanthropy. She facilitates processes of identifying values, vision and global needs with next gens or in a broader family setting. Key goal is to build effective partnerships to drive collaborative philanthropy, impact and system change.

 

Paula has worked within the United Nations system in Geneva on issues connected to human rights, international trade, peacebuilding, and conflict mediation. She led the cleantech desk at the Canadian Embassy in Switzerland and in Singapore and is passionate about climate solutions.  She led philanthropy for a European based family office and Foundation and has worked with many different types of business, university, NGO's and government organizations to build synergies. In her spare time she enjoys travelling, swimming, writing poetry and meeting new people. She is also a member of the P150 Global Philanthropy Advisors convened by Schmidt Futures, who work together to help bring philanthropic capital together to solve key challenges like climate, inclusion, mental health crisis etc.

 

Paula holds an Hon. BA, a D.E.S in International Relations from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, a PhD from the University of Cambridge where her thesis was on reframing self-other perceptions, entitled “Negotiating Global Change”. 

 

Paula currently lives in Toronto with her husband and four children.