Grant Harrison
As Vice President, Sustainable Finance & ESG, Grant leads on program development for GreenFin – the premier sustainable finance and investing event aligning the sustainability, investment and finance communities. Grant works to direct the vigor of capital markets toward the realization of a clean and just economy, and to make GreenFin the launchpad of the ideas, insights and connections that will shift capital allocation to support sustainability. Grant previously served as Senior Account Executive with Trellis, working with clients across financial services, transportation, tech and consulting. Prior to joining Trellis, Grant worked under the auspices of the USDA implementing reforestation projects in fire-affected regions of Northern California. Grant holds a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in Environmental Governance from Oxford University. He is animated by a healthy diet of existential anxiety and an enduring faith in humans’ ability to solve problems together. Grant loves, more than most things, to surf.
The GreenFin Interview: On corporate purpose and 'Pieconomics', with Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans, professor of finance with the London Business School, discusses his radical rethink of how companies operate and why they exist. Read More
What will the increased financialization of carbon do for decarbonization?
Thoughts about what developments like the London Stock Exchange Group’s launch of a new exchange offering for carbon credits portend for the path ahead. Read More
The year ahead in ESG: Pledges, politics and biodiversity
Is 2023 the year the pens writing pledges get put down and the finance sector gets to work in investing towards a net-zero future? Read More
Sustainable finance meets biodiversity in Montreal
Climate change and biodiversity loss are entirely intertwined, and more investors are moving to engage companies about the risks they face from both. Read More
Can we rewrite the rules of green finance quickly enough?
The use of ESG analysis in investment decision-making is still routinely conflated with the measurement of sustainable outcomes. We need a sharper lens. Read More
The GreenFin Interview: How Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund addresses climate risks
The diverse holdings of the world's largest sovereign wealth funding make corporate engagements key in addressing climate risks and the clean economy transition. Read More
The GreenFin Interview: Inside the world's largest pure-play renewables portfolio
Brookfield Renewable CSO Kelly Goddard on battery storage, hydrogen, capture capture and other technologies critical for the energy transition. Read More
'Lawyer up': Republican rhetoric over ESG escalates
Five U.S. senators recently warned 51 U.S. law firms that certain ESG policies could run afoul of antitrust regulations. Read More
Financing imperatives for Africa’s clean energy transition
Finding cash to help African countries develop renewable energy for domestic needs and benefit from export opportunities is one of the biggest challenges over the long term. Read More
In dialogue at COP27: What's lost, what's damaged and what's at stake
The impacts of rich nations’ historical emissions are causing are a clear and present danger right now. Who pays the bills remains very much in debate. Read More
