2022 Sponsors

We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. We commit people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow.

Since Goldman Sachs established the Environmental Policy Framework in 2005, we continue to remain dedicated to its core tenant: committing our people, capital and ideas to develop market solutions that address environmental challenges. Over the past year, we have made progress in the commitment to target $750 billion in financing, investing and advisory activity focused on climate transition and inclusive growth by reaching $156 billion of our total. At Goldman Sachs, we remain steadfast in our belief that sustainable finance is a powerful answer to today’s urgent challenges. It’s why we’ve never been more committed to accelerating the climate transition and driving inclusive growth.

Sia Partners is a next-generation consulting firm focused on delivering superior value and tangible results to its clients as they navigate the digital revolution. We are a global firm that has grown steadily over the past 20 years. With 2,400 consultants in 38 offices across 18 counties, our global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients’ businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy, and Data Science. As the pioneer of Consulting 4.0, we integrate and leverage AI, emerging tech, and open innovation into our solutions.

Consulting For Good is Sia Partners’ global Corporate Social Responsibility approach, by which we strive to integrate CSR into the core of our business strategy, operations, and culture. Our approach covers Sia Partners’ practices and policies, as well as the support we offer our clients via innovative offerings centered on sustainability. The urgent need to limit the scale of climate change is widely acknowledged. Sia Partners has been committed to accelerating carbon reduction and the energy transition for 15 years. 12% of our revenue is generated by offerings related to climate change; we help clients in the public and private sectors navigate the on-going global transition to a low carbon economy. Profound mitigation and adaptation are necessary to build a sustainable, resilient world of tomorrow.

At Bank of America, we’re guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better, through the power of every connection. We’re delivering on this through responsible growth with a focus on our environmental, social and governance (ESG) leadership. ESG is embedded across our eight lines of business and reflects how we help fuel the global economy, build trust and credibility, and represent a company that people want to work for, invest in and do business with. It’s demonstrated in the inclusive and supportive workplace we create for our employees, the responsible products and services we offer our clients, and the impact we make around the world in helping local economies thrive. An important part of this work is forming strong partnerships with nonprofits and advocacy groups, such as community, consumer and environmental organizations, to bring together our collective networks and expertise to achieve greater impact.

PJT Camberview, a business group of PJT Partners LP, is a leading provider of investor-led advice to public companies on engagement and shareholder relations, activism and contested situations, ESG/sustainability, executive compensation and complex corporate governance matters. PJT Camberview helps its clients succeed by providing unique insight into investors’ perspectives on long-term value creation, interpreting the evolving governance landscape and creating effective strategies to stay ahead of investor challenges. To learn more about PJT Camberview please click here.

RBC Global Asset Management offers a comprehensive range of solutions and services to our clients and investors, including ESG-integrated, economically-targeted investing and impact investing strategies. Our Impact Investing team manages $2.0 billion in assets (as of 12.31.21) and aims to build stronger communities through fixed income investments offering safety, liquidity and competitive returns. Partnering with investors, the team tailors portfolios of high quality securities to their specific needs while aiming to achieve a market rate of return and increase the flow of capital to target communities. We believe that through impact investing, investors can pursue competitive investment returns while achieving measurable social impacts.

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with in high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of February 24, 2022, the closing of the firm's recent fundraise, Fund XII, brings Insight Partners regulatory assets under management to over $90B. Insight Partners has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto. Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Insight Partners meets great software leaders where they are in their growth journey, from their first investment to IPO. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.

The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES) understands the urgency of environmental challenges. An education and research hub, IBES harnesses academic excellence from many disciplines, from climatology and ecology to sociology and international relations.

At this dynamic cross-campus center, students and faculty conduct groundbreaking research and build creative solutions to complex 21st-century problems. Our work combines an understanding of the natural world and of human societies because environmental stewardship, human rights, and economic well-being are inextricably linked. Through our unique interdisciplinary approach, IBES fosters actionable research outcomes and the change agents of tomorrow.

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University seeks to promote a just and peaceful world through research, teaching, and public engagement. Watson is a community of scholars, practitioners, and students whose work aims to help us understand and address critical challenges. It is dedicated to meaningful social science research and teaching, and animated by the conviction that informed policy can change systems and societies for the better.

The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship empowers the next generation of entrepreneurship leaders through curricular, co-curricular, and venture support to create and launch solutions with impact. To learn more, visit entrepreneurship.brown.edu.

We provide dedicated support for climate change and sustainability-focused ventures. These early-stage venture grants are for undergraduate and graduate students interested in developing solutions to environmental problems and comes with dedicated Nelson Center advising along with funding.