Dr. Corinna Basler is the president of Green Festivals Inc., based in Asheville, North Carolina. Green Festivals, Inc. organizes Green Festival®Expo, America’s largest and longest running sustainability and green living event. As president, Dr. Basler brings over twelve years of experience in international corporate business strategy, marketing, branding, communications and corporate social responsibility.
Prior to joining Green Festival, Dr. Basler was a strategic consultant to global sustainable economy businesses and organizations in Germany, Asia and the United States, including Emerald Capital Asia (projects with International Finance Corporation and World Bank Group), Mercedes Benz and Merrill Lynch. Dr. Basler worked closely with the Maybach Family and Daimler AG in the development of the Wilhelm & Karl Maybach Family Foundation, including its philanthropic cooperation with Daimler AG and United Nations. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Science from the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz (Germany’s Best-Practice University 2002) focusing on consumer behaviors and the impact of personality traits and cultural backgrounds in all four continents. She received her B.S. and MBA in Business Management at Hochschule Harz, University of Applied Studies and Research, Germany.
Corinna is deeply passionate about animals and nature has traveled to over ninety countries where she gained an appreciation and respect for the differing cultures around the world. Her commitment to sustainability is both professional and personal as she has been vegetarian for twenty-two years and a vegan for the last twelve years.
