Isabella Grandic

• Industrials investment banking analyst @ Santander CIB. Captivated by the unseen influence of chemical and manufacturing industries.
• Graduated from the University of North Carolina with a major in Chemistry. My favourite courses were Organic Chemistry, World Politics in R, Electromagnetism, and Food & Wine in France.
• I am fascinated by global logistics. I have done projects/internships with GAC Thailand, Maersk Offshore Wind, and Madiro exploring import-export inefficiencies, industrial ports, and last-mile medical supply chains, respectively.
• I write a quarterly reflection on Substack. Some favourites have been on Love, Wandering, Graduating, Hiking, Doubt, and Bureaucracy.
• Favourite books: The Rational Optimist, Engines that Move Markets, Sapiens, The Parent's Guide to the Tao Te Ching, Unreasonable Hospitality, The Prophet, Le Petit Prince, Factfulness, Ishmael, and The Surrender Experiment.

• Raising children and education, especially Lazlo Polgar’s thesis, Raise a Genius!, and strategies for harnessing human potential.
• Designing motherhood (inspo)—the medical, institutional, and communal aspects.
• Reinventing Societal Infrastructure (h/t Vinod Khosla).
• Hosting—making people feel welcomed, warm, and at home. ❤
• Adventures—tuk-tuk-ing across Sri Lanka, volunteering in rural Burundi, backpacking Thailand/Vietnam, and especially exploring underestimated places.
• Journaling, meditation, yoga, and expanding my internal capacity for love and positivity.