Tessy Antony De Nassau - Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Advocate, Public Speaker, Activist, Mother

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Tessy Antony De Nassau is a Social Entrepreneur, Business Woman, Philanthropist, Advocate, Public Speaker, Activist, Mother, and Jazz Aficionado (https://www.instagram.com/tessy_from_luxembourg/?hl=en​). Tessy is founder and partner of the Global consultancy Finding Butterflies Consulting LTD (http://findingbutterflies.com/​), co-founder of the fashion brand Human Highness (https://www.human-highness.com/​), host of the podcast series Tessy Antony de Nassau’s Zoom O’Clock, and an associate at LSEideas at the London School of Economics. Tessy actively promotes a number of issues, including global health and women’s rights and serves as a UNAIDS Global Advocate for Young Women and Adolescent Girls and is a patron to United Nations Association – UK. Her commitments to education can be seen in her Foundation, Professors Without Borders, which brings top level educators and global experts to the doorsteps of students worldwide, in order to develop talent. In the past, Tessy spent five years in the Luxembourg military, during which she was deployed in Kosovo as a peacekeeper and only woman of her draft. Tessy received the Woman of the Decade award from the Women Economic Forum, the Mrongovius Medal for humanitarian involvement, the Global Empowerment Award for her work in Africa, named “Leader of the Year 2019” by the Leadership Academy in Luxembourg, and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Paris College of Arts in 2019 to recognize her work in the domain of education. Tessy has been an active member of the Luxembourg “Groupe de Support Psychologique” (GSP) for the past five years, and was awarded in 2020 the Freedom of the City of London for her humanitarian work and her work in education worldwide. Tessy graduated from Richmond, The American International University in London with a B.A. in International Relations, where she wrote her thesis on the rise of nationalism in Europe. She earned her master’s degree from SOAS, University of London in Institutions and Diplomacy where she wrote her masters thesis on Biological Terrorism. Additionally Tessy has a trauma psychologist certification, and a Teaching Assistant certification. She holds certifications in sustainable business from Harvard Business School Online and a Pandemics and Epidemics from the University of California.

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