Harnessing Finance for Climate: A Conversation on Impact Investing with Adair Morse

Jul. 04, 2023

Regulators play a crucial role in driving sustainable investments in financial markets. We interviewed Professor Adair Morse, from Haas School of Business, a leading expert on impact investing and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Capital Access, US Treasury.

Professor Morse and Jan Starmans, SHoF researcher and assistant professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, discussed:

Areas where impact investing could thrive
The role of public-private partnerships in the climate transition
The different approaches in the US (“carrots”) and Europe (“sticks”)
How research can help industry and governments to work with impact investing efficiently.

Watch the full interview here.

Harnessing Finance for Climate: A Conversation on Impact Investing with Adair Morse

“As we move forward... I think it will become less politicized and we can see how the regulatory environment really matters... at that point then, the US and the European policy will start to converge a bit and we’re able to line up on the regulation of the things that matter."

- Adair Morse

Adair Morse

Adair Morse is the Soloman P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics and Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business. She is the Founding Faculty Director of the Sustainable and Impact Finance Initiative, and she is also a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business.