I’m an economist by training and a data scientist by practice. My work broadly focuses on how markets and firms use non-financial measurements (including ESG data). I’ve also worked on open data and corporate sustainability.
I’m a Research Fellow at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and a Doctoral Candidate at the Stern School of Business. My Master’s in Social Research Methods (Statistics) is from the London School of Economics and my Diplom in Economics is from the University of Mannheim.
Before joining NYU Stern, I served as the Chief Measurement & Technology Officer at the NYU HUMAN Project, a mobile health startup that is now Datacubed Health. Previously, I led the Startup Incubator for the Open Data Institute.
NEW!
2023-10-11: Our whitepaper on the state of “S” data is now available on SSRN. Read more here: Companies don’t know how to measure their human capital other than as a labor cost–and it’s hurting profits
2023-02-23: Our viewpoint on Locating the Future of ESG: The Promise of Geospatial Data in Advancing ESG Research is available. (Email me for a copy of the article.)
2022-07-22: Our paper Does Sustainability Generate Better Financial Performance? Review, Meta-analysis, and Propositions has been accepted by the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment.
2022-07-19: The site is now built with Quarto. Goodbye static site generators and templates with arcane options. Hello literate programming and awesome R community.
Research highlights
Going Dark: Incentives for Private Firms’ Strategic Nondisclosure
(with Massimiliano Bonacchi and Ilan Guttman), working paper [SSRN]
Does Sustainability Generate Better Financial Performance? Review, Meta-analysis, and Propositions
(with Tracy Van Holt, Zoe Liu, and Chris Bruno), Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment (2022)
The Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) methodology
(with Elyse Douglas, Tracy Van Holt, and Tensie Whelan), (won “Best Paper” $6,000 honorarium), Review of Business (2019)
Peer-to-peer lending and financial innovation in the United Kingdom
(with David Bholat), Bank of England Staff Working Paper No. 598 (2016)
Sustainable Purchasing Patterns and Consumer Responsiveness to Sustainability Marketing Messages
(with Randi Kronthal-Sacco, Tracy Van Holt, and Tensie Whelan), Journal of Sustainability Research (2020)
The cultural consensus of sustainability‐driven innovation: Strategies for success
(with Tracy Van Holt, Matt Statler, Tensie Whelan, Mara van Loggerenberg, and James Cebulla), Business Strategy and the Environment (2020)
Financial benefits of reimagined, sustainable, agrifood supply networks
(with Tracy Van Holt, Martin Delaroche, and Kevin Eckerle), Journal of International Business Policy (2021)
Evaluating Experience Sampling of Stress in a Single-Subject Research Design
(Master’s thesis), Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2013)