1. What SIRI course do you teach?
“Corporate and Investor Stewardship: Influencing Climate and Nature Policy.” This is my third year teaching the course.
2. What does the course cover and how does it relate to real world challenges?
It covers how decisions are made IRL (in real life) by policymakers and private sector participants, taking into consideration their individual and institutional incentives and constraints. We look at several real world policies from that context, and try to model potential solutions.
3. What knowledge and skills will students build for their careers going forward?
Students will have a strong understanding of the policy/advocacy as well as investment industry structures in terms of financial and other goals/ incentives (as individuals as well as institutions) and have a better sense of the type of environment they want to contribute to in their careers.
4. How has the way you teach been influenced by your life?
In every possible way. I created this course, influenced my lived experienced trying to bring policy and financial market players closer together (in my own home, married to an environmental lawyer/advocate!). Every day, I live and work through the lack of understanding between people who think big and people who are charged with implementing the policy and practice on the ground, within financial and other constraints. As a non-native English speaker and former professional interpreter, I see this as a translation as well as a cultural problem.
