Sponsor

Sponsoring WorldBoston provides exceptional visibility for internationally minded companies and an opportunity to showcase a commitment to global engagement. Sponsorships at the Diplomat Level and above translate into key benefits including special access to WorldBoston events, regular profile opportunities in WorldBoston communications, tickets to the 15th Annual Consuls Reception, and more.

For more information about sponsoring WorldBoston, please contact Mary Yntema
(myntema@worldboston.org)

As a convener on international topics affecting Boston in the world since 1949, WorldBoston gathers leaders from business, government, education, and the arts throughout the year for events and activities that feature exceptional speakers like Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Ambassador Susan Rice, Admiral James Stavridis, Ambassador Samantha Power, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis, General H.R. McMaster, Dr. Richard Haass, Ambassador Wendy Sherman, Representative Seth Moulton, Governor Deval Patrick, and others.

Sponsorship provides critical support to WorldBoston, a 71-year-old nonpartisan organization which embodies the slogan, “The World in Boston and Boston in the World.”

WorldBoston’s Citizen Diplomacy program hosts over 800 international leaders in their fields, and connects them with peers and professional resources in Greater Boston.

And our Global Engagement program offers over 40 events, such as our Chat & Chowder and Great Decisions series and our exciting high school international affairs competition, to engage internationally-minded Bostonians in topics of global importance.

On October 30th, 2024, WorldBoston will host the 15th Annual Consuls Reception recognizing the Consular Corps serving Boston and New England and supporting the mission of WorldBoston to foster engagement in international affairs. We’re honored to host Paul Selian, who will offer remarks. And we are thrilled to return the Consuls Reception to the beautiful Harborview Room on the 31st floor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

WorldBoston sponsorships highlight internationally-minded organizations and individuals and their commitment to global engagement. Sponsorships at the Diplomat Level and above translate into special visibility in WorldBoston communications, complimentary tickets to the 15th Annual Consuls Reception, and more.

For more information about sponsoring WorldBoston, please contact Mary Yntema (myntema@worldboston.org).

Thank you to our 2023 Sponsors

Presidential

• Berkshire Bank

• Autodesk

Ambassador

• American Jewish Committee

• American Tower Corporation

• *DoubleTree by Hilton Boston-Downtown 

• Tom Ebling 

• Jeffrey LeClair, AllianceBernstein

• The Fletcher School at Tufts University 

• Ramsay Thurber

• *Wilkins Family Fund

Diplomat

• *Sanjay Aggarwal

• Henry Ancona

• Battery Wharf Waterfront Hotel

• Maureen Bennett

• Bunker Hill Community College

• *Colleges of the Fenway

• *Commonwealth Fusion Systems 

• Courtyard by Marriott Boston/Brookline

• *Creative Leadership Solutions

• Jeffrey Cymrot

• James De Vellis

• Dr. Edward W. Minnock Institute for Global Engagement at Bridgewater State University

• East Horizon Investments

• *Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University 

• Becca Gould

• Irving Kemper

• Ann LaFrance

• Northeastern University

• *Salem State University

• The Edward Davis Company

• *University of Massachusetts Boston

Attaché

• Anonymous

• *Boston-Strasbourg Sister City Association, President Kathryn Portle

• *Bill Clifford

• Matthew Findlay

• Leslie Griffin

• Haynes & Associates

• James Kaufman

• Bennett W. Schwartz

• Deborah Smith

• *Union Oyster House

• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

*New sponsors as of 2023 are marked with an asterisk.

On October 19th, 2023, WorldBoston hosted the 14th Annual Consuls Reception recognizing the Consular Corps serving Boston and New England and supporting the mission of WorldBoston to foster engagement in international affairs. We were honored to host Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator and first-ever White House National Climate Advisor.

The first-ever White House National Climate Advisor and former U.S. EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy is one of the nation’s most respected voices on climate change, the environment, and public health. As head of the Climate Policy Office under President Biden, McCarthy’s leadership led to the most aggressive action on climate in U.S. history, creating new jobs and unprecedented clean energy innovation and investments across the country. Her commitment to bold action across the Biden administration, supported by the climate and clean energy provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, restored U.S. climate leadership on a global stage and put a new U.S. national target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 within reach.

Throughout her years of public service in both Republican and Democratic administrations, McCarthy is credited for her common-sense strategies and ability to work across the aisle, with states, communities, business leaders, and the labor community, to tackle our nation’s toughest environmental challenges in ways that spur economic growth. and improve public health for workers and families, especially those living in environmental justice communities.

Currently, Gina is an Operating Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors, a Senior Advisor at TPG Rise Climate Fund, a Senior Advisor at Bloomberg Philanthropies, and a Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School’s Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Energy Foundation.

Before joining the Biden administration, McCarthy was President and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the nation's largest and most influential environmental advocacy organizations. Prior to NRDC, she was a Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she served as the Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment. She was also a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. During this time, she engaged students and climate science thought-leaders across the faculty, as well as corporate and non-profit leaders across the world, to coordinate strategies to turn climate and health science into actions that promote a healthier, more sustainable, and just world.

From 2013–2017, McCarthy was the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Obama. McCarthy focused on using science and input from broad external engagement to strengthen clean air standards including establishing tighter standards on mercury pollution, a new EPA Clean Water Rule to protect rivers and streams that 117 million Americans rely on for drinking water, the first national standards requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for fossil-fuel-fired power plants, and many other policies, programmatic and regulatory efforts that demonstrated the United States' strong commitment to protecting public health and the environment. To advance climate and environmental justice domestically and internationally, McCarthy worked to implement President Obama’s climate action plan spearheading U.S. international engagements that resulted in the passage of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out the use of high global warming chemicals and engaged in efforts leading to the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement.

Before serving as EPA Administrator, McCarthy held the position of Assistant Administrator in the Office of Air and Radiation. Prior to her Presidential appointment, McCarthy was the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, where she served as Chair of the Governor’s Climate Advisory Council, developed the state’s Climate Action Plan, began an initiative called “No Child Left Inside” to introduce families to the natural world by visiting state parks, helped design and implement the nine-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the nation’s first cap and trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for power plants. She also held senior positions in the administration of five Massachusetts governors, including Deputy Secretary of the Office of Commonwealth Development and Undersecretary for Policy for the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. 

McCarthy earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a joint Master of Science in Environmental Health Engineering, Planning and Policy from Tuft’s University.

Presidential

• Berkshire Bank

• Autodesk

Ambassador

• American Jewish Committee

• American Tower Corporation

• *DoubleTree by Hilton Boston-Downtown 

• Tom Ebling 

• Jeffery LeClair, AllianceBernstein

• The Fletcher School at Tufts University 

• Ramsay Thurber

• *Wilkins Family Fund

Diplomat

• *Sanjay Aggarwal

• Henry Ancona

• Battery Wharf Waterfront Hotel

• Maureen Bennett

• Bunker Hill Community College

• *Colleges of the Fenway

• *Commonwealth Fusion Systems 

• Courtyard by Marriott Boston/Brookline

• *Creative Leadership Solutions

• Jeffrey Cymrot

• James De Vellis

• Dr. Edward W. Minnock Institute for Global Engagement at Bridgewater State University

• East Horizon Investments

• *Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University 

• Becca Gould

• Irving Kemper

• Ann LaFrance

• Northeastern University

• *Salem State University

• The Edward Davis Company

• *University of Massachusetts Boston

Attaché

• Anonymous

• *Boston-Strasbourg Sister City Association, President Kathryn Portle

• *Bill Clifford

• Matthew Findlay

• Leslie Griffin

• Haynes & Associates

• James Kaufman

• Bennett W. Schwartz

• Deborah Smith

• *Union Oyster House

• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

*New sponsors as of 2023 are marked with an asterisk.

On September 14th, 2022, WorldBoston hosted its 13th Annual Consuls Reception honoring the Consular Corps serving New England and celebrating the mission of WorldBoston to foster engagement in international affairs. This year, the event highlighted Boston’s role as a global city in a globalized world. To mark the occasion and to offer remarks on Boston’s growing position on the international stage, we were honored to feature Boston Mayor Michelle Wu at the beautiful Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building.

Michelle Wu is the Mayor of Boston. She is a daughter of immigrants, Boston Public Schools mom to two boys, MBTA commuter, and fierce believer that we can solve our deepest challenges through building community. As Mayor, Michelle is working in coalition to deliver bold, systemic change and make Boston a city for everyone.

Mayor Wu has been a voice for accessibility, transparency, and community engagement in city leadership. First elected to the Boston City Council in November 2013 at the age of 28, Wu is the first Asian-American woman to serve on the Council. In January 2016, she was elected President of the City Council by her colleagues in a unanimous vote, becoming the first woman of color to serve as Council President.

As a Councilor, Mayor Wu was the lead sponsor of Boston's Paid Parental Leave ordinance and Healthcare Equity ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity — both of which passed unanimously through the Council and were signed into law by former Mayor Martin J. Walsh. She also authored Boston’s Communications Access ordinance, which guarantees translation, interpretation and assistive technology for access to City services regardless of English language proficiency or communications disability.

Wu got her start in City Hall working for Mayor Thomas M. Menino as a Rappaport Fellow in Law and Public Policy, where she created the city’s first guide to the restaurant permitting process from start to finish, and was also a driving force to launch Boston’s food truck program. She later served as statewide Constituency Director in the U.S. Senate campaign of her former law professor, Elizabeth Warren.

As a former restaurant owner, legal services attorney, and legal guardian of her younger sister, Wu understands firsthand the barriers that families and communities face.  She has a background in community advocacy, having worked at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, providing legal advice to low-income small business owners, as well as at the Medical-Legal Partnership at Boston Medical Center on immigration law cases for survivors of domestic violence.

In 2016, Councilor Wu was honored as one of Ten Outstanding Young Leaders by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and as part of Marie Claire magazine’s New Guard: The 50 Most Influential Women in America.

Mayor Wu graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She is fluent in Mandarin and Spanish, and lives in Roslindale with her husband Conor and her sons Blaise and Cass.

Presidential

• Berkshire Bank

• Autodesk

Ambassador

• Tom Ebling

• Ramsay Thurber

• American Jewish Committee

• American Tower

Diplomat

• Kempner Family Foundation

• Jeffrey LeClair

• Northeastern University

• *Québec Government Office in Boston

• *The Edward Davis Company

• The Fletcher School at Tufts University

• Anna Thurber

• *212 Stuart

• Henry Ancona

• Bunker Hill Community College

• Jeffrey Cymrot

• Dr. Edward W. Minnock Institute for Global Engagement, Bridgewater State University

• East Horizon Investments

• *James De Vellis

• Becca Gould

• *Haynes & Associates

Attaché

• James Kaufman

• Bennett W. Schwartz

• *Deborah Smith

• *Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University

• Anonymous

• Anonymous

• Courtyard Marriott Boston/Brookline

• Matthew Findlay

• Leslie Griffin

*New sponsors as of 2022 are marked with an asterisk.

In October 2021, WorldBoston hosted its 12th Annual Consuls Reception honoring the Consular Corps serving New England and celebrating the mission of WorldBoston to foster engagement in international affairs.

The event focused on the local-international sustainability dynamic, highlighting Massachusetts’ leadership in climate initiatives and the role the local diplomatic corps plays in global policies and partnerships. As a timely reminder of the importance of this topic, the keynote speaker, Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Kathleen A. Theoharides, was called to an urgent press conference about a nor’easter hitting the region. Despite the weather, the mission persisted! We had the privilege of hosting Undersecretary of Energy and Climate Solutions Judy Chang in her place.

President

• American Jewish Committee

• American Tower

• Berkshire Bank

Ambassador

• Autodesk

• *Anonymous Donor

• Commonwealth Frontier Advisors

• Tom Ebling

• Ramsay Thurber

Diplomat

• Henry Ancona

• *Bunker Hill Community College

• Jeffrey Cymrot

• Becca Gould

• Henderson Family Foundation

• Kempner Family Foundation

• *Northeastern University

• *The Fletcher School

• *WiTricity

Attache

• *Bridgewater State University

• *Matthew Findlay

• Leslie Griffin

• Jim Kaufman

• *Courtyard Marriott Boston/Brookline

• Bennett W. Schwartz

*New sponsors since 2020 are marked with an asterisk.

Thank you to The Urban Grape and The Brattle Theatre for generously donating our raffle prizes.