Climate Finance Podcast

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Robert G. Eccles is a leading ESG integration academic focusing on sustainable corporate and investment strategies. His work focuses on how capital markets can contribute to ensuring a sustainable society for generations to come.

Dr. Eccles is a Visiting Professor of Management Practice at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He was a Tenured Professor ...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Shivaram Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has previously held professorship positions at Duke University, Emory University, and the University of Washington.

Dr. Rajgopal´s research is focused on ESG, Governance, Financial Reporting, Valuation, Fraud, Executive Compensation, Short-Termism, Corpo...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Dr. Lisa Mandle is a Lead Scientist and the Director of Science-Software Integration at Stanford University’s Natural Capital (NatCap) Project.

She is the lead author/editor of Green Growth That Works: Natural Capital Policy and Finance Mechanisms From Around The World.

Dr. Mandle works with governments, multilateral development banks, and NGOs, especially in Lati...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Alicia Seiger is a Managing Director of Stanford University’s Sustainable Finance Initiative at Precourt Institute for Energy and a Managing Director of Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy, Policy, and Finance. She conducts her teaching and research activities at Stanford Law School, Stanford MBA program, and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Alic...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Daniel Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University’s Environment,  Law, and Management Schools. He also serves as director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, co-director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, which he founded in 2007. Professor E...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Dr. Gernot Wagner is a Climate Economist at Columbia Business School.

He is the author of Geoengineering: The Gamble (2021), Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet (2016; Co-Authored with Dr. Martin Weitzman), and But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World (2012).

Previously, Dr. Wagner was a Clinical Associate Profess...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Dr. Todd Cort holds Faculty Co-Director positions at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance, which are located in the Yale School of Management and Yale School of Environment. Todd Cort is the co-editor of two books: Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting (2020) with Dan Esty, and Sustainab...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Vikram Gandhi is a Professor at Harvard Business School, where he co-pioneered their Sustainable Investing Course, “Investing: Risk, Return & Impact.” The course won the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education from the Financial Times. He is also a Visiting Faculty member at Tsinghua University. Vikram Gandhi is a Found...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Bruce Usher is a Professor at Columbia Business School, teaching the intersection between finance, social, and environmental issues.  He is the author of “Investing in the Era of Climate Change” (2022) and “Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century” (2019). Apart from his teaching and research activities, he is an advisor and investor in multiple C...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Simmi Sareen is the Director of Unitus Capital, an Indian Impact-focused Investment Bank. She is the Co-Founder of Climake, along with Shravan Shankar, a Climate Venture Studio supporting the growth of Early-Stage Indian startups. Climake publishes an annual report on the “State of Climate Finance in India.” Simmi Sareen previously founded fintech platforms, Loan...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Fiona Reynolds was the CEO of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) from 2013 to 2021.

The UN PRI was created in 2006 to promote the incorporation of ESG Factors (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) into investment decision-making. It currently has 4900+ signatories (Asset Owners and Investment Management Firms) representin...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Marilyn Waite is the Managing Director of the Climate Finance Fund and a Venture Partner at Aera Venture Capital. She is the author of Sustainability at Work: Careers that make a difference (2016), an Editor at GreenBiz, and a host of the China CleanTech Podcast with New Energy Nexus. Prior to Climate Finance Fund, Marilyn was the Climate and Clean Energy Finance...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Alexandra Wright-Gladstein is the Founder and CEO of Sphere. Sphere is a public benefit corporation that is amplifying a social movement to get 401(k) retirement savings money out of fossil fuel companies. Sphere has two ‘first of its kind’ products: i) Sphere 500 Fossil Fuel Free Index (SPFFXI) which tracks the S&P500 excluding the fossil fuel companies, and ...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Cary Krosinsky (LinkedIn | Website) is the Co-Founder of the Sustainable Finance Institute and the Carbon Tracker Initiative. He has co-published seven books on sustainable finance and investing. Cary has undertaken teaching and research roles at several universities including Columbia University, Brown University, Yale University, Concordia University, New York U...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Sean Kidney is the Co-Founder and CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI). CBI is an international investor focused NGO working to mobilise global capital for climate action. CBI is the only organisation working solely on mobilising the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions. Sean Kidney studied at University of Sydney and he is currently a Professor...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Lindelwe Lesley Ndlovu is the CEO of the African Risk Capacity ‘‘ARC’’ Ltd. ARC Ltd is a specialist insurance company that provides parametric insurance coverage to African countries against extreme weather events and natural disasters. Prior to ARC, Lesley worked with AXA Group, AXIS Capital, and Deloitte in various senior management roles. Lesley is a graduate o...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Delton Chen founded the Global Carbon Reward initiative in 2013. Delton is a qualified civil engineer and geo-hydrologist, and he holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia. Delton did his doctoral research on the hydrology of a coral cay in the Great Barrier Reef, and he has 20 years of combined experience in groundwater management,...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Tiza Mafira is an Associate Director at the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and the founder of the Plastic Bag Diet Movement in Indonesia. Prior to working at the CPI, she studied at Harvard Law School and worked as a corporate lawyer. Climate Policy Initiative in Indonesia has 10 analysts and over 60 publications / articles, and works alongside several Indonesian...

Purchase the Climate Finance Course at www.climatefinancecourse.com Mark Tercek is the former CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Prior to his work at TNC, he was a partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs for 24 years. He is the author of the Washington Post bestselling book - Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature. Mark advises corporations, investment funds and NGOs on ambitious environm...