Jessica Wirth Strine
Director of the Board
Ms. Jessica Wirth Strine has served as a director of FREYR since 2023.
Ms. Strine is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Sustainable Governance Partners LLC, an independent corporate advisory firm that she co-founded in 2020. In this capacity, Ms. Strine has served as an external consultant to several public companies on corporate governance, sustainability practices, and investor relations. Prior to founding Sustainable Governance Partners, Ms. Strine served as a Senior Director of Investment Stewardship at The Vanguard Group, from 2018-2020. From 2012 to 2017, Ms. Strine was employed by BlackRock, Inc., where she served as an energy sector portfolio manager and director of research within the company’s fundamental active equities business. From 2004 to 2012, Ms. Strine was a sector portfolio manager and equity research analyst at Putnam Investments, where she also co-managed the Global Energy Fund and Global Natural Resources Fund. Prior to this time, from 2001 to 2004, Ms. Strine worked in equity research at Wellington Management Company.
Her primary areas of expertise include investment management, financial analysis, commodities and energy, corporate governance, ESG and sustainability strategy.
Ms. Strine is a graduate of Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Psychological & Brain Sciences, and she holds an M.B.A with a Finance concentration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.