Gloria Benedikt is a stage director and researcher. She graduated from the Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy, English National Ballet School, and Harvard University. In 2015, she joined the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) to explore the role of science-arts partnerships in sustainability. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in 2021 and became a consultant to the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) in 2022. She has presented her work at the UN, European Parliament, UNESCO, and Harvard University.