Our client is a non-profit organization that promotes the adoption of sustainability reporting across institutions worldwide. It provides a common language for organizations to communicate their environmental, social, and governance impacts...
In the Fall 2025 SIRI Practicum course, my team and I are working on a project in the public sector domain, focusing on a country’s Sustainable Finance policies where we are expected to deliver policy recommendation as the final outcome. Our objective is to support the policy-making process with a comprehensive assessment on the country’s domestic landscape, multilateral lending, and comparative analysis.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve begun work on a group-based practicum project at the intersection of sustainable finance and international entrepreneurship. The focus is on the city of Fukuoka, Japan, which is emerging as both a testbed for urban regeneration and a gateway for international startups entering the Japanese market.
This semester in SIRI Practicum my team and I are working with a client in the nonprofit sector whose goal is to help make it so that corporations’ political activities reflect positive climate policies. In a time where companies are more in the public eye and under a microscope, it not only makes moral sense to incorporate sound climate policies into companies’ strategic agenda, but also economic sense.
When I first learned about the project and specifically the tool for human rights due diligence (HRDD) we would be working with, I was struck by the alignment between its mission and my own personal and professional journey...
The success of a city lies not in its size but in how sustainably it uses its resources to nurture businesses and develop its talent, economy, and infrastructure...
This semester, I am excited to join the Sustainable Investing Research Institute, working on solutions to address the intersection of energy poverty, conflict risk, and environmental vulnerability in fragile countries...
The project focuses on helping a purpose-driven organization that has developed a multilingual worker-voice application designed to collect standardized, actionable data directly from supply chain workers. The tool enables companies to address issues such as responsible recruitment, gender equity, and workplace conditions, and is positioned as a critical component of human rights due diligence (HRDD)...
The reason I chose the SIRI Practicum is that I want to apply my learning and previous working experience to real-world applications and make a real impact on the industry. I had two years of research experience in the sustainable finance field before I started my Columbia journey. However, I never had a chance to apply those experiences to real-world applications, something that I was thrilled to gain from my journey at Columbia University.
Forests are the vast breathing ecosystems that sustain life, regulate our climate, and hold centuries of wisdom within their roots. They stand as some of the most vital carbon sinks on Earth, sheltering extraordinary biodiversity and supporting resilient communities who have long been their stewards. Through our Sustainable Investing Practicum, a project centered on sustainable forest management in Latin America, I’ve stepped into a space where ecology meets economy, where forests are not merely landscapes but living systems shaping our collective future.
This semester, I have been working on a consulting project with a non-profit organization dedicated to designing systems that align environmental conservation with sustainable economic development. The client is leading an ambitious initiative in Guyana, home to some of the world’s most intact tropical forests, to develop a replicable model for sustainable forest management - one that keeps forests standing while improving livelihoods and strengthening local economies.
The world of sustainability reporting has undergone a seismic shift over the past few years. While the practice was formerly exclusively associated with 'do-gooders' and ethical business practices, now even the historically villainized, profit-driven corporations, are reporting on sustainability metrics.