1. What SIRI course do you teach?
I teach: Quantitative Valuation of the Environment: Firms’ Economic Valuation of Nature and its Ecosystem Services
2. What does the course cover and how does it relate to real-world challenges?
This course covers how one can use the principles of environmental economics to translate natural and environmental risks into financial risks and opportunities, helping students to learn how to be more informed when making sustainable investment decisions. Students will learn how to quantify these nature and environmental-based and incorporate them into investment analysis.
3. What knowledge and skills will students build for their careers going forward?
The key skills that students will develop from the course include:
- Quantifying environmental risks and opportunities in financial terms (P/L metrics)
- Evaluating the private value of positive and negative externalities of natural capital and ecosystem services
- Assessing investments under risk when these externality values are difficult to quantify
- Analysing sustainability-linked financial instruments, in the context of environmental externalities.
Together, these skills can help investors better identify, value, price, and manage sustainability-related risks and opportunities that can affect financial performance.
4. How has the way you teach been influenced by your life?
A combination of my professional experience and academic training has shaped the way I teach. Through my work in sustainability, finance, and economics, I have seen how rigorous economic and financial analysis can improve investment decisions by helping investors assess environmental risks, identify long-term value creation opportunities, and navigate uncertainty. This perspective leads me to emphasise practical applications that connect theory to the real-world challenges facing investors, businesses, and policymakers today.
