Todd Arthur Bridges, Ph.D.

ESG Book is a global leader in technology and data. The company offers a range of product solutions that are used by the world’s leading investors and companies. The product portfolio includes reported data, company-level analytics, fund-level analytics, and a SaaS data management and reporting platform. The products cover the full spectrum of sustainability including ESG, climate, values-alignment, regulatory, and impact. The company is backed by Energy Impact Partners, Meridiam, Accenture,  and Allianz X. ESG Book is headquartered in London.

Trusted Responsibilities: 
• Strategic Planning - collaborated with CEO and Board to develop strategy for the company, establish business intelligence requirements that prioritize stakeholder demands, and build global product roadmap to help clients meet climate and sustainability challenges.    

• Product Development - built innovative products (data, analytics, client solutions, software platform) that solve for ESG performance, carbon data, climate analytics, regulatory reporting.  

• Team Leadership - built and led high-performing global research and product management team across four verticals (sustainability, climate science, sustainable investing, regulations & standards), and collaborated with engineering, sales, and marketing on GTM product release.  

• Corporate Engagement - led client engagements (public and private companies) on product solutions, climate decarbonization, climate transition, climate scenarios, and technology solutions.  

• Education & Advocacy - established the company as a thought leader via speaking engagements, white-papers, industry conferences (UN Climate Week), and professional forums (CFA Society).

State Street Global Advisors serves the world’s governments, institutions, and financial advisors. With a rigorous, risk-aware approach built on research, analysis and market-tested experience, they build from a breadth of index and active strategies to create cost-effective solutions. As stewards, they help portfolio companies see that what is fair for people and sustainable for the planet can deliver long-term performance. As pioneers in index, ETF, and ESG investing, they are always inventing new ways to invest. As a result, SSGA has become the world’s fourth-largest asset manager with US $4.72 trillion AUM. SSGA is headquartered in Boston. 

Trusted Responsibilities: 
• Strategic Planning - collaborated with CIOs to develop strategy and build global product solutions roadmap to help clients meet climate and sustainability challenges.

• Product Development - built innovative products (strategies, funds, client solutions, reporting tools) that solve for client requirements for sustainable investing and climate decarbonization — servicing public pensions, corporate pensions, endowments, and investment consultants.

• Team Leadership - built and managed research team and collaborated with strategists, product, and engineering on the integration of sustainability across asset class — including beta, smart beta, active quant, fixed income, active fundamental, alternatives, and asset stewardship engagements.

• Corporate Engagement - led client engagements (public and private companies) on sustainability product solutions, ESG investment solutions, climate investments, and corporate governance.

• Education & Advocacy - established the company as a thought leader via speaking engagements, white-papers, industry conferences (UN Climate Week), and professional forums (CFA Society).

Ethic is the technology platform for sustainable and impact investing. The company empowers wealth advisors and institutional investors to create portfolios that align personal values with financial goals. The Ethic offering is available to advisors and institutions at Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Morgan Stanley. The company is backed by investors including State Street Global Advisors, Jordan Park, UBS, Fidelity, and Oak HC/FT. Ethic is headquartered in New York City.

Trusted Responsibilities:
• Strategic Planning - collaborated with CEO to develop the sustainability strategy, establish business intelligence requirements that prioritize stakeholder demands, and build product solutions roadmap to help clients meet climate and sustainability challenges.

• Product Development - built innovative product that integrates proprietary investment model and best practice from modern portfolio theory - tracking error, risk premia, and sustainability. 

• Research Leadership - led due diligence on ESG data, climate decarbonization, reporting solutions, values-alignment, and negotiated data licensing contracts - MSCI, Sustainalytics, CDP, S&P, SASB. 

• Corporate Engagement - led client engagements on sustainability solutions, ESG data, climate data, sustainable investing, climate transition, technology solutions, and product solutions.

Cornell University is a privately endowed research university, and as the federal land-grant institution in New York State, it has a responsibility--unique within the Ivy League--to make contributions in all fields of knowledge in a manner that prioritizes public engagement to help improve the quality of life in our state, the nation, and the world. 

Trusted Responsibilities: 
• Strategic Planning - collaborated with Faculty Director and Board members to develop organizational strategy, secured grant funding for programs, and managed research institute.

• Research Leadership - led programs and research to empirically model how to build sustainable economic growth and long term value creation - via entrepreneurs, technology, and finance.

• Education & Advocacy - produced data-driven reports and presented findings on the impact of capital markets and government in building innovation hubs and technology ecosystems.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense." NSF is vital because they support basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.

Trusted Responsibilities:
• Program Management - secured grant funding and built program to model the role of technology, finance, and entrepreneurship in building sustainable markets.

• Research Leadership - developed research and data analysis to answer key strategic questions focused on entrepreneurs, economics, venture capital, and sustainable markets.

• Education & Advocacy - presented research findings to scientists and industry leaders in the USA, Germany, United Kingdom, and Russia.

The Max Planck Society is Germany's most successful research organization. Since its establishment in 1948, no fewer than 18 Nobel laureates have emerged from the ranks of its scientists, putting it on a par with the best and most prestigious research institutions worldwide. The currently 83 Max Planck Institutes and facilities conduct basic research in the service of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.

Trusted Responsibilities:
• Program Management - secured grant funding and built program for research on corporate governance, networks, and financial regulation across global capital and financial markets.

• Research Leadership - produced data-driven research reports on the changing structure of financial markets and the new governance structures in the alternative investment industry--hedge funds and private equity. 

• Corporate Engagement - built strategic relationships with hedge fund managers, private equity, CIOs, and entrepreneurs - conducted 100+ qualitative interviews and surveys.

• Education & Advocacy - presented research findings to scientists and industry leaders in the USA, Germany, United Kingdom, and at the Max Planck Institute for the Advancement of Science.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation comprised of 38 member countries, that works to build better policies for better lives. Their mission is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. Together with governments, policy makers and citizens, they work on establishing evidence-based international standards, and finding solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges.

Trusted Responsibilities:
• Program Management - developed program to model the role of technology and energy infrastructure over the 21st century across OECD member countries.

• Research Leadership - conducted research and data analysis to answer key strategic questions focused on energy demand, economic growth, government policies, and sustainable markets.

• Education & Advocacy - presented research findings to the Secretary-General's office and OECD member countries' leadership in Paris.

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the graduate business school of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1898, Chicago Booth is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and is associated with 10 Nobel laureates in the Economic Sciences, more than any other business school in the world.

Trusted Responsibilities:
• Strategic Planning - collaborated with Nobel laureate faculty director and board members to develop research strategy, manage sponsored research, and build research teams - undergraduate, graduate, and staff.

• Program Management - developed qualitative and quantitative research programs using a mixture of research methods - surveys, interviews, hypothesis testing, and regressions.

• Research Leadership - built and led high-performing research team across three verticals (economic history, GIS spatial analytics, data collection), and collaborated with faculty affiliates.

• Education & Advocacy - produced data-driven reports and presented findings on applied economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic history and institutional change.

Doctorate with specialization in Organizational Behavior, Social Science, Research Methods

Doctoral fellow with specialization in Law, Economics, and Socio-Legal Governance 

Doctoral fellow with specialization in Organizational Behavior, Social Science, Research Methods 

Masters with specialization in Organizational Behavior, Social Science, Research Methods