David Carrico Wood

David Wood is an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs and The Brandmeyer Fellow for Impact and Sustainable Investing. He was the co-founder of the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at the Harvard Kennedy School. He studies the theory and practice of responsible/sustainable/impact investment broadly construed. Previous research projects have included work on the theory and practice of responsible investment across asset classes; public policy and responsible/impact investment; corporate reporting on ESG issues; and economic inequality and the just transition as topics in the field. He is currently working a history of responsible investment from the 1970s to the present day.