OUR GUEST in S1E12:
I am pleased to welcome to the ESG and Coffee Podcast my next investor guest, Chris McKnett to our long form interviews in S1, “The Originals”. His bio reads “Christopher (Chris) McKnett is co-head of Sustainable Investing. He is jointly responsible for shaping and executing on a holistic strategy for sustainable investing across the organization. Chris is a member of the Diversity & Inclusion Sub-Council. Previously, Chris was a senior environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment strategist. Before that, he served as head ESG strategist for State Street Global Advisors and was a member of the firm's senior leadership team. Prior to that, he worked at KLD Research & Analytics in Boston, one of the first research firms to specialize in ESG, and American Century Investments, where he began his investment industry career in 1999.” He is a First Movers Fellow of the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program.
We first met: I first met Chris when I moved to Boston MA in the winter of 2005 to be research product manager at KLD Research & Analytics, Inc., and he joined shortly afterwards from Denver CO to work on the indexes side of the business. We were both new to Boston, and had shifted our careers directly into sustainable investing. As Chris so kindly says, we have been friends ever since and fellow travelers collaborating in different work moving forward ESG in investmentland on at least three continents.
Stay after the close for our BONUS TAPE where we talk briefly about portfolio names that may be surprising, where Chris expounds upon climate transition with small firms and large firms, and where the large diversified incumbents that have achievable plans that may benefit from transition and will help the economy shift happen.
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