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.
Will Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability be polluted by fossil-fuel money?
Big Oil is a big backer of a new school devoted to sustainability. Are they leveraging the lessons learned by Big Tobacco? Read More
The GreenFin Interview: Harvard’s George Serafeim on purpose and profit
Don't assume that by having more disclosure we will be able to reach consensus on what “good” ESG performance looks like. Read More
Goldman Sachs Foundation president Asahi Pompey on having an impact
A view on sustainability and philanthropy — or, that is, "the pursuit of profit with serious consideration" for purpose and impact. Read More
Where do ESG and sustainable finance go from here?
The tone, texture and temper of the attacks on ESG has meaningfully shifted, and the factors upon which 'it depends' are naturally shifting as a result. Read More
ASU on ESG’s higher calling in higher education
Student activists garner more headlines than pensioners. And maybe that's a good thing. Read More
Liberty Mutual’s approach to ESG investing, with Vlad Barbalat
A view of ESG investing from one of the largest property and casualty insurers in the United. Read More
Former BlackRock exec and FT editor-at-large on ESG market 'referees'
Tariq Fancy, former BlackRock chief investment officer for sustainable investing, and Financial Times editor-at-large Gilian Tett share their takes on the tension between the tenets of neoliberalism and the potential for ESG investing. Read More
Sunlight may be the best disinfectant, but what about satellites?
A new relationship between Planet, an Earth imaging company, and financial services stalwart Moody’s aims to address the growing demand for information about ESG risk. Read More
Sustainable investing expert Alison Taylor on ESG misconceptions and why ethics are part of the equation
The BSR advisor, NYU professor and executive director at Ethical Systems discusses what concerning orthodoxies she’s seeing begin to ossify, and what leadership in ESG investing should really be doing right now. Read More
The GreenFin Interview: The view of Wall Street, with State Street’s CFO and head of ESG
What does it take to install trust in financial institutions these days? State Street seems to be trying. Read More
