Investing in What Matters: Rethinking Risk, Value and Accountability
24 Jul 2025
16:00 -17:00
GMT+1
Open to: All Cost: Free to attend
Online
(where applicable, further details sent upon registration)
Join our lunchtime Executive Education webinar with Professor Christopher Marquis
As climate change, inequality, and other systemic externalities become increasingly financially material, institutional investors are under growing pressure to integrate these risks into decision-making. However, many remain constrained – by outdated assumptions, narrow interpretations of fiduciary duty, and fears of reputational or regulatory backlash.
To discuss these issues and what leading investors are doing to address them, join us for the next instalment of our Thought Leadership Webinar series, led by Professor Christopher Marquis. This webinar reframes responsible investing not as ideological or peripheral, but as a necessary evolution in what is considered prudent, suitable and responsible investment decision-making. Moving beyond the binary of ‘impact vs traditional’, this conversation will explore:
- why environmental and societal risks are inseparable from long-term financial performance
- what legal fiduciary duty truly requires – and how it supports, rather than hinders, climate- and justice-aligned investment strategies
- how impact-aligned investments are often held to higher standards or dismissed – not due to underperformance, but because they challenge entrenched norms
- how existing benchmarks and evaluation frameworks often undervalue investments with positive externalities
By grounding the discussion in professional standards and legal responsibilities – rather than political rhetoric – this session will equip asset owners with the tools and confidence to adapt investment strategies to today’s realities.
Participants
Moderator
- Professor Christopher Marquis, Sinyi Professor of Management, Cambridge Judge Business School
Panellists
- Julianne Zimmerman, Co-CEO, Adasina Social Capital
- Georges Dyer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Intentional Endowments Network
- Tara Sabre Collier, Senior Director for Impact Investing, Chemonics
- Jim Casselberry, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Known
About the event series
Lunch & Learn: Leading with Cambridge is an exclusive webinar series from the Executive Education Team at Cambridge Judge Business School. It offers a unique opportunity to engage with our world-class faculty and thought leaders as they examine the forces reshaping global business.
Designed for forward-thinking professionals and executives, each session blends academic rigour with practical relevance – offering fresh insights and actionable tools to navigate the future of work and leadership.
Be inspired. Be informed. Be ready to lead.