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, portfolio-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 to develop the strategic vision for the company, develop business requirements that prioritize stakeholder demands, and develop global product  roadmap to help clients meet climate and sustainable investing challenges.   

• Product Development - built innovative products (data, analytics, software platform) that solve for ESG performance, climate decarbonization, climate adaptation, and regulatory compliance. 

• 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.

• Client Engagement - led client engagements (public and private) on data management, data analytics, sustainability performance, climate transition, and software 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 $4.13 trillion AUM. SSGA is headquartered in Boston. 

Trusted Responsibilities: 
• Strategic Planning - collaborated with CIOs to develop business strategy and develop global product roadmap to help clients meet global climate and sustainable investing challenges.

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

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

• Client Engagement - led client engagements (public and private) on data management, investment solutions, climate investments, and sustainability best practice for 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 Jordan Park, UBS, Fidelity, Oak HC/FT, NYCA Partners, and Sound Ventures. Ethic is headquartered in New York City.

Trusted Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning - collaborated with CEO to develop the strategic vision for the company, develop business requirements that prioritize stakeholder demands, and develop product roadmap to help clients meet global climate and sustainable investing challenges.

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

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

• Client Engagement - led client engagements on sustainability, data analytics, climate data, sustainable investing, climate transition, decarbonization, and investment 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, secure funding for programs, and manage research institute.

• Program Management - led programs and research to empirically understand how to build sustainable economic growth - via entrepreneurs, technology, and financial markets.

• 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 - led program to model the role of technology, finance, and entrepreneurship in building sustainable markets - award from National Science Foundation.

• 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 - led program and secured funding 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. 

• Stakeholder 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 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.

• Research Leadership - conducted qualitative and quantitative research using a mixture of research methods - surveys, interviews, hypothesis testing, and regressions.

• Team 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