Jessica Smith is a Chief People Officer with 15 years of experience leading global HR teams across some of the world's most complex and fast-moving organisations — including Amazon, AWS, and Meta. She has led people strategy across the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, and Asia Pacific — building HR functions from the ground up and guiding organisations through large-scale transformation across multiple industries and geographies.
She holds a BS in Finance from Hampton University and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona. Bilingual in English and Spanish, she has lived and worked in three countries and brings a global lens to every conversation about the future of HR.
In 2026 she completed MIT's programme in Leadership for the AI Age: Driving Transformation for Competitive Advantage — deepening her understanding of how AI is reshaping organisations and what it takes to lead that change from the people side.
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