Steven Lydenberg

Steve Lydenberg is currently a SIRI Senior Fellow at the Sustainable Investing Research Initiative of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. 

Over the past 50 years, he has worked with Domini Impacts Investments (Partner, Strategic Vision), The Investment Integration Project (Founder), KLD Research & Analytics (Director, Research), Trillium Asset Management, and the Council on Economic Priorities. 

He has authored and co-authored five books on socially responsible investment, including “21^st Century Investment: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change” (with William Burckart) and “Corporations and the Public Interest: Guiding the Invisible Hand”. Among his articles and white papers are “Reason, Rationality, and Fiduciary Duty” (Journal of Business Ethics) and “From Transparency to Performance: Industry-Based Sustainability Reporting on Key Issues” (with Jean Rogers and David Wood). 

He has a BA in English from Columbia College, an MFA in Theater Arts from Cornell University, and is a Chartered Finance Analyst holder.