Perspectives on Sustainable and Responsible Investing

SRI, or Socially Responsible Investment, an increasingly important issue on Yales campus and within the investment and activist community as a whole, has turned sustainability and responsi-bility into a viable investment strategies, and turned  capital into an effective tool for social and environmental change.  Join us for a conversation with two experts in the field of sustainable and responsible investing.  

Cary Krosinsky, Vice President of TruCost, the worlds most comprehensive provider of re-search on corporate environmental impact, Cary is a member of the 70 person Expert Group that created the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), which has been commit-ted to by over US$15 Trillion worth of asset managers and owners. He also co-edited and wrote the book Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance' with Nick Robins of HSBC, which features contributions from other leading practitioners.

Graham Sinclair, visiting us from Cape Town, South Africa, is a sustainable investment strate-gist, ESG investment architect and global project leader. His research and advisory engagements model investment architecture integrating environmental, social and governance factors in emerging and frontier markets, especially Africa. Since 2006 Sinclair & Company has delivered design and strategy for the IFC, UN, WBCSD, trillion-dollar investment managers, and interna-tional organizations.