Colleagues,
This is a reminder about the upcoming Innovation North Speaker Series, taking place next Tuesday, December 10, from 10-11 am EST. We are excited to welcome Jason Jay, Senior Lecturer and Director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, and the co-author of Breaking Through Gridlock. Jason's last 20 years of research, teaching, advising, and field building has explored the variety of roles that corporates, entrepreneurs, investors, NGOs, public policy, and cross-sectoral field builders can play in building a just and sustainable world.
Here is a brief abstract of his presentation:
In his talk, 'The Systems Turn in Finance,' Jason will describe how investors are starting to understand the social and environmental risks we face as systemic risks, the need for systemic change, and the opportunity for systems thinking to enhance investment practice. He shows how tools like the En-ROADS climate simulator can help cultivate "systems aware" investors, as well as the more advanced examples of "systemic investing" and "system stewardship" that are emerging in practice to address climate and the other big challenges of our time.
If you haven't already, please register for the Zoom link here: https://ivey-uwo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sce-gpjwpGtRRpd5GhQClvIGuDaWF1SC2
Cheers,
Tima Bansal, FRSC
Ivey Business School
tbansal@ivey.ca