Dr Greg Fischer is a member of the Sustainable Finance & Social Impact practices at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), working closely with the Principal Investors & Private Equity (PIPE) and Corporate Finance & Strategy (CFS) teams. He specializes in sustainable investment strategies for private equity, asset, and wealth managers, working to build and integrate sustainable investment and management practices that generate value. He also co-leads BCG’s Impact Investing and Blended Finance activities globally.

Dr Fischer is committed to the idea that all companies can target social, environmental and sustainability impacts with the same rigor they use to pursue and maximize financial returns. In his work at BCG, Dr Fischer draws on 10 years of investment experience and nearly two decades of research into building and using evidence for better decision making and impact. He works with clients on change management for integrating commercial and sustainability operations, impact quantification and monetization, ESG data collection, management, and reporting, plus impact and sustainability diligence.

Prior to joining BCG, Dr Fischer was the Chief Economist of Y Analytics, which runs the environmental and social impact services for TPG’s Rise Fund as well as the ESG analysis for TPG’s full portfolio. He also co-founded a SaaS-based, sustainability and impact data collection, management, and reporting company.

Outside of BCG, Dr Fischer is a Professor of Practice in School of Public Policy and the Department of Finance at the London School of Economics, where he currently teaches a course on sustainable finance and impact investing. He has worked with many private companies, international development organizations, and NGOs to conduct and build their capacity for large-scale impact evaluations and has taught data science at the graduate and post-graduate level. Dr Fischer holds a PhD in economics from MIT, where he was a Presidential Scholar and NSF Fellow, and an AB in Economics (summa cum laude) from Princeton University.

Dirk Forrister is President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), a non-profit business association dedicated to market-based climate policies. With over 300 member companies, IETA is respected globally as a thought leader on strategies to harness the power of markets to deliver climate protection.

Dirk brings a long history of public and private sector engagement in energy and environmental policy. He spent a decade as Managing Director at Natsource LLC, the manager of carbon funds valued at $1.2 billion. Earlier in his career, Mr. Forrister served as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force in the Clinton Administration, and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Public Affairs. His environmental markets career began when he advised US Congressman Jim Cooper, a leader in crafting the US acid rain trading legislation in 1990.

Radha Kuppali is a business and investment leader with a focus on developing innovative capital solutions to address climate change and promote the restoration and protection of nature.

Radha’s career in environmental finance has spanned across executive leadership in the asset management industry, start-up business development, and board roles in the finance, manufacturing, and environmental sectors. Since 2006, she has been an integral staff member and executive of New Forests, one of the world’s largest asset management businesses in sustainable forestry, land, and conservation finance. They are operating in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and across Southeast Asia and Africa. She currently holds the position of Managing Director, Impact and Advocacy. Radha serves on the boards of Accounting for Nature, which is developing the world’s leading environmental accounting standard, and Greening Australia, the country’s leading land restoration organisation. Radha began her career on the ground floor of the carbon markets, advising corporates and governments on opportunities and risks of climate change and energy policies around the world.

Radha has a Master Environmental Management and Master of Business Administration from Yale University.