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2024 Election Impact: Navigating the Future of Sustainable Investing

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CFAP Sustainable Investing Thought Leadership Group

The CFAP Sustainable Investing Thought Leadership Group provides a forum to advance the dialogue regarding the role of sustainable investing in today's capital markets and beyond.

Join us for an insightful virtual panel discussion on the potential impact of the 2024 U.S. election on markets, with a specific focus on the field of sustainable, responsible, and impact (SRI) investing. This non-partisan event will explore how various electoral outcomes—depending on who wins the White House and Congress—will likely shape public policy that could influence sustainable investing trends for the next four years and beyond.


Nick Ashburn, the Founder and CEO of Personawealth, will moderate our expert panel and will examine key policy areas such as climate change and potential shifts in energy policy tax incentives for green technologies, the DOJ and monopolies, and the future of corporate governance and accountability, especially in a post-Chevron Deference environment.


About Our Panelists & the CFAP Sustainable Investing Thought Leadership Group

 Adam Wasserman, the Founder and Executive Director of Finpublica, is also the Managing Member of August Way Law & Consulting PLLC, a bespoke law firm helping financial industry clients achieve excellence, innovation, and sustainability.  Adam previously spent more than seven years as the Head of Enforcement of the New York Stock Exchange where he rebuilt its market regulation department and led its preeminent enforcement program.  He is a graduate of Pomona College and Harvard Law School.  

Witold (Vit) Henisz is the Vice Dean and Director of ESG Initiative at the Wharton School.   Vit has won multiple teaching awards at the graduate and undergraduate levels.  His research examines the impact of political hazards as well as environmental, social, and governance factors more broadly on the strategy and valuation of global corporations.  He is currently a principal in the consultancy PRIMA LLC.  Vit received his Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

 Karyn Polak, Founder and Chief Activator of Shift the Prism Advisory, is changing the mindsets, systems, and approaches to capital and development, sparking engagement and collaboration from the hyperlocal to the national and international level.  She previously served as a senior counsel, trusted advisor, and C-suite executive in her various roles at Citigroup, PNC Bank, and Transamerica.  Karyn is a graduate of Boston University School of Law.


* Hosted by Certified Financial Advisor of Philadelphia

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