Erika Karp
| Erika Karp | |
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| Born |
Erika Karp New York, New York, USA |
| Education | Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University |
| Occupation | Chief Executive Officer of Cornerstone Capital Inc |
Erika Karp is an American entrepreneur, businesswoman and investment advisor as well as a writer and speaker on issues related to sustainable finance. She is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cornerstone Capital Inc., an investment firm. Acknowledged as a veteran executive on Wall Street, Karp is an advocate for greater corporate transparency, inclusion of environmental, social and governance (ESG) data in investment analysis, and the creation of a more sustainable form of capitalism through disciplined investment practices.
Karp is a founding Board member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, a U.S. non-profit organization incorporated in 2011 to develop and disseminate industry-specific social and environmental financial-reporting standards. She is an advisor to the UN Global Compact’s LEAD Board Development Program, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Financing and Capital, and an Advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative’s Market-based Approaches track.
Prior to launching Cornerstone in August 2013, Karp was managing director and head of Global Sector Research at UBS Investment Bank. She also chaired the UBS Global Investment Review Committee and served on the UBS Securities Research Executive Committee and the Environmental and Human Rights Committee of the UBS Group Executive Board.
Central to all of Karp’s professional activities is the motivating principle that corporations and investors can drive positive social and environmental impact while optimizing competitive returns to shareholders. In seeking positive societal impact at scale, she also espouses the idea that capital markets should “accelerate the velocity of money” toward small and medium-sized enterprises pursuing sustainable growth and development globally. She told the Clinton Global Initiative “Plenary Session: Reimagining Impact” moderated by President Bill Clinton in 2014, “Our goal is to foster corporate excellence, which we define as the relentless pursuit of material progress toward a more regenerative and inclusive economy.”
Karp has written extensively on issues including sustainable finance, impact investing, women in finance, workplace diversity, entrepreneurship, corporate governance and board development. Her work has been featured in online and print publications including The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Guardian, the Financial Times, Investor Relations Magazine and Forbes.
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