Cary Krosinsky

Cary Krosinsky

Lecturer of International and Public Affairs (Part-time)


Personal Details

Cary Krosinsky is a widely respected educator, leading author and advisor on sustainable finance whose ongoing teaching includes popular courses at Brown, Yale and NYU. He will act as an Adjunct Professor at SIPA in spring 2022 to help oversee a capstone project sponsored by the World Bank, having previously done similar in 2020 and 2021 on Greening Global Pension Funds and Envisioning a Nature 100 respectively.

His seventh book is on Modern China and the need for better relations to solve societal challenges, which will be out April 2020. His first book was published in 2008, Sustainable Finance, The Art of Long Term Performance with Nick Robins. He is also Co-Founder and Director of the Sustainable Finance Institute, which hosted its first event on the Future of Sustainable Finance in China at Peking University HSBC Business School in Shenzhen in January 2019, featuring leading investors with emerging investment solutions across asset class, many of whom are profiled in this upcoming new book.

He is also Co-Founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, its parent Investor Watch and Real Impact Tracker, Sustainability Advisor, DeepGreen Metals and Principal, NPV Associates. He was a member of the NY State Common Decarbonization Advisory Panel appointed by Governor Cuomo and Comptroller DiNapoli 2018-19 leading to the fund’s $20B Climate Action Plan, and author/co-author of many previous papers including for the China-UK Green Finance Taskforce, for the UNEP Inquiry on the Value of Everything and for PRI in 2015 developing a framework for asset owners on climate change strategy.