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: Open source design meets climate finance data
OS-Climate, part of the Linux Foundation, is applying the principles of open source software development to the quest for more accessible data about climate finance. Read More
Where climate risk and fiduciary duty intersect
If climate risk is investment risk, then it seems entirely appropriate for a fiduciary to weigh ESG considerations. Read More
How much stock can we put into portfolio emission goals?
A new report by Universal Owner Initiatives suggests fatal flaws in the use of portfolio emissions measurement as a means to real net zero. Read More
The GreenFin Interview: NAACP’s CEO on ESG and equity’s 'third act'
Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, discusses the role of a new fund designed to provide exposure to American companies that fit the NAACP’s vision of good corporate citizens. Read More
Could you explain ESG investment to your neighbor?
How can the average retail investor best make sense of ESG products? Read More
Green is good: The ESG talent war in private equity
ESG roles are opening at an increasing clip at private equity firms both small and large. What’s behind the trend, and how is private equity skilling and staffing up to meet the moment? Read More
More proposals, less support: What to make of the 2022 proxy season
Amid a decline in major asset managers' support of ESG-themed resolutions, what does the future hold for sustainable finance? Read More
Who leads, who lags on sustainable finance policy
Aviva sets the gold standard for engagement on global sustainable finance policy. Read More
The game of ESG telephone
The conflation of ESG with sustainability has put ESG in the midst of an awkward game of tug-of-war, with commercial and existential incentives as the primary pullers. In this interview, experts Ken Pucker and Andrew King address that dichotomy. Read More
Green and growth — can we have both?
There is no reason theoretically that we can’t achieve “absolute decoupling,” while sustaining economic growth. Read More
