SIRI Welcomes New Managing Director Katherine Ng
The Sustainable Investing Research Initiative (SIRI) is thrilled to welcome Katherine Ng as its new Managing Director! Katherine will continue Chandana Yelkur’s great work and will bring SIRI to new heights.
Chandana Yelkur served as SIRI’s Managing Director since its very launch. She has been a cornerstone of SIRI and helped SIRI Director Caroline Flammer scale up SIRI to the vibrant initiative it is today. A heartfelt thank you to her for all the great work and wonderful years of collaboration and friendship! We wish Chandana all the very best for her future endeavours and are delighted that she will remain engaged with SIRI as SIRI Young Leaders Fellow '25 in the years to come.
A hearty welcome to Katherine Ng who will join us as SIRI’s new Managing Director! We are thrilled to have her join us. Katherine brings with her a rich expertise in bridging the gap between research, practice and policy. Over the past 20 years, Katherine has focused on systemic, global challenges such as climate change, transformational technologies, and inequality. She was the Head of Research at the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) for 10 years, where she built the innovative research programme that supported applied research, and drove further value, impact and dialogue by bringing independent evidence and insights to investment professionals. She grew and scaled up the Academic Network, the community of practice for investment practitioners and academics, to over 13,000 around the world, and spearheaded PhD and Research Fellowships at the PRI. As a programme director, she created and led funding initiatives for pioneering research that addresses current and future investment concerns.
Katherine is passionate about developing rich environments for interdisciplinary field-building in academia and navigating impact channels for communicating research insights. She has worked with leading academics, industry experts, with educators such as the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) at the UN Global Compact, as well as the OECD and the World Bank.
As a consultant at European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), she supported the development of the Patrons Council, an initiative of leading investors, companies and academics that aims to guide European corporations through rapidly evolving global challenges, such as the transition to Net Zero, artificial intelligence, geopolitical shifts and regulatory developments. Katherine was previously the Research Manager at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), managing projects and sponsorships on sustainability, corporate governance, financial reporting, taxation, auditing, and SMEs. She supported the key relationship with the Economic and Social Research Council.
Katherine began her career at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the UK working on inequality and was a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. She was part of a consortium of technology assessment bodies, science museums, academic institutions and public foundations from nine European Countries that investigated the social, economic, legal and ethical implications of brain science and made recommendations to national and European policymakers.
Please join us in wishing Chandana well and welcoming Katherine to SIRI!
Stay tuned for further exciting news about the new launch of SIRI’s Minor in Sustainable Investing at SIPA, curricular offerings in Fall 2025, and the SIRI Career Fair (on Sept 16).