Students Reflection Blogs from their Sustainable Investing Research Consulting Project Experience.
In the past five years, I have been working at a financial authority in Indonesia, where we have a mandate to regulate, supervise, and initiate a financial deepening program...
This semester, I am working on a practicum project in sustainable finance that looks at how stock exchanges around the world encourage companies to report on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues...
Before coming to SIPA, I was primarily studying traditional commercial finance, focusing on financial modeling and quantitative finance...
I am a master’s student in Sustainability Management, and I am very grateful for the opportunity to participate in the SIRI Practicum and work alongside SIPA students on a real-world project...
The increase in sustainability and ESG-related finance and investment activities has been exponential in recent years. According to Bloomberg, global ESG invested assets surpassed $30 trillion in 2022 and is estimated to reach $40 trillion by 2030, one-third of the total assets under management (AUM)...
This semester, I am working in the philanthropy and catalytic capital sector, examining how philanthropic resources interact with policy frameworks, demographic change, and private capital markets...
One of the first events I attended at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2024 was a discussion on the upcoming Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville, led by Professors José Antonio Ocampo and Daniel Naujoks...
When it comes to sustainability, social responsibility, and impact investing, they sometimes feel like ambitious ideas to me. Can these visions really be put into practice?
I want to focus on carbon credit risk assessment because it is a critical—yet often overlooked—link between impact storytelling and real investment decision-making...
When I wrote my first reflection blog post at the beginning of the semester, the dilemmas I faced, such as intergenerational equity, short-termism, and global divides, felt theoretical and far away from the day-to-day realities of investment decisions. However, through our practicum project on longevity, these abstract questions became deeply practical...
When I wrote my first reflection, I was just beginning to understand the practical meaning of 'impact'...
When I wrote my first reflection, I was just beginning to understand the practical meaning of 'impact'...