Maria Figueroa Kupcu is a Partner and Head of the New York office of Brunswick Group, an advisory firm specializing in critical issues and corporate relations. She has anchored Brunswick’s Business and Society offer in the U.S. since 2007 and is a senior advisor to Global 500 corporations, foundations and family offices. Her focus is social purpose campaigning, issues management and stakeholder engagement. Previously, Maria was aDirector at the strategy and polling firm Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates. A seasoned opinion researcher, she has advised a variety of political contests including presidential campaigns in five countries including: Ukraine, Zimbabwe and South Korea. Maria began her career with the United Nations, working to reconcile government, business and NGO positions on environmental and social issues such as water risk, youth and labor rights. She is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and Tufts University, where she is a board member of the Institute for Global Leadership.