Amaia Rodríguez

CEO at Gravity Wave

CEO and Co-founder of Gravity Wave, alongside her partner and brother Julen, a social enterprise that has collected over 700 tons of plastic and fishing nets from the sea and ports and transformed them into products and materials.

She graduated in Business Administration (ADE) and lived in China for two years. It was during a trip to an island in Malaysia where she first encountered the massive plastic pollution in the oceans and decided to dedicate her life to addressing this issue through social entrepreneurship.

Thanks to her work with Gravity Wave, she has received various awards for innovation, sustainability, and leadership, and is the only Spanish recipient of the Cartier Women’s Initiative Award in 2024.