Navigation auf uzh.ch

Suche

Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth

James Gifford

James Gifford, Dr.

  • Senior Collaborator
  • Head of Sustainable & Impact Advisory and Thought Leadership Credit Suisse
  • Formerly Head of Impact Investing Chief Investment Office UBS Wealth Management
  • Founder and former Executive Director of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment
  • Project at CSP: Co-Lead of the Next Gen Impact Investing program run in collaboration with the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School

Short Biography

James Gifford is the Head of Impact Advisory for Credit Suisse, working with the bank’s clients and advisors to mobilize capital into impact investing. He was the founding Executive Director of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and led the organization from inception in 2003 until 2013. Other roles include Head of Impact Investing at UBS and Director of Impact at TAU Investment Management. James has published numerous articles and book chapters on responsible investment, and has a PhD from the University of Sydney on the effectiveness of shareholder engagement in improving corporate behavior. He is one of the co-founders, and core faculty, of the Impact Investing for the Next Generation program, co-hosted by the IRI at Harvard and CSP at the University of Zurich.

James can be reached at james.gifford@uzh.ch