Sustainable Finance Stewardship Academy

Become a leader in developing financial and business strategies to drive systemic change and create a more sustainable future for generations to come. Join the SFSA to master system-level investing—the new frontier in sustainable investing.

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Webinar Series

Professor Flammer recently hosted a webinar entitled The New Frontiers of Sustainable Investing: System-Level Investing and Blended Finance. In the webinar, she explores the new frontiers of sustainable investing—system-level investing, blended finance, and business stewardship—and discusses the skills leaders need to navigate global challenges while creating organizational value.

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Overview

The 21st century has brought with it profound challenges to our economic, social, and planetary wellbeing. We now face an accelerating pace of change and disruption to our social and political institutions, as well as growing global systemic-level threats, from global warming to pandemics and poverty. 

To respond to the increased expectations and pressures by their various constituencies, to leverage opportunities, and to build shareholder value, investors, corporate executives, and directors alike need to understand how to address these system-level challenges and respond to the increased expectations and pressures faced by their various constituencies.

SIPA's Sustainable Investing Research Initiative (SIRI) offers two new Executive Education Academies -- the Sustainable Finance Stewardship Academy (SFSA) and the Sustainable Business Stewardship Academy (SBSA) -- which are designed to help inform and train corporate directors, executives, and senior managers from large financial and corporate institutions to develop and implement effective stewardship strategies to help lead their organization through these turbulent times. 

Become a leader in developing financial and business strategies to drive systemic change and create a more sustainable future for generations to come. Join the SFSA to master system-level investing--the new frontier in sustainable investing--and the SBSA to become an expert in business stewardship, aligning corporate social, environmental, and policy initiatives with your business strategy. The SFSA and SBSA academies are endorsed and supported by the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and the High Meadows Institute.
 

Professional Benefits

Participants of the SFSA will learn how to engage in system-level investing--the new frontier in sustainable investing. They will discuss the opportunities and challenges of implementing conventional tools and advanced techniques available to investors to trigger systemic change through their capital allocation, portfolio firm engagement, coalition building, policy engagement, and much more. Pursuing system-level investing will likely help make the environmental, social, and economic systems more resilient and decrease the overall systemic risk the financial system and real economy are exposed to.

Following the completion of the course, participants will earn a Certificate awarded by Columbia SIPA as well as given the opportunity to join an alumni peer learning network.
 

Who Should Attend

Corporate directors, executives, and senior managers of large financial firms and corporations.
 

Admissions Process

Please submit your application at the following link. If you are a returning user, log in with your existing account; if you are a first-time user, please create an account. Note: for all certificate and non-degree programs, please select the Executive Education application (not the general SIPA application).
 
 

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Curriculum

Schedule

The SIRI SFSA and SBSA academies will run in parallel. The first 6 sessions will be held online, followed by a 1.5 day in-person meeting on the campus of Columbia University. The in-person meeting will bring both academies together to foster dialogue, learning, networking, and collaboration across the financial and corporate sectors. 

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