Erika Karp
Erika’s work has been featured by media including Bloomberg, The Guardian, the Financial Times, Investor Relations Magazine, and Forbes. Erika speaks on sustainable investing and finance at venues around the world including the UN Global Compact, the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the Clinton Global Initiative, the Wharton School, the NYSE, the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), the Aspen Institute, the White House, and many others.
Erika holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School. She serves on the Board of Jewish Women Invest. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Criterion Institute and the Global Advisory Board of GreenFin.
Selected achievements and accolades:
- Founding Board member, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (now the Value Reporting Foundation)
- Current Board member, Jewish Women Invest
- Advisory Board Member, the Criterion Institute
- Global Advisory Board Member, GreenFin
- Advisor to the Humanity United’s Know The Chain initiative
- Ambassador for the World Benchmarking Alliance
- Member of CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative Advisory Council
- Columnist, Impact Entrepreneur
- United Nations General Assembly Speaker and Global Compact Board Advisor
- Advisor to former Clinton Global Initiative Market-Based Approaches team; plenary speaker at 2014 Winter Meeting
- Served on World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Financing & Capital
- Served on Program Design Advisory Council, Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program, Innovating for Sustainability
- Recognized among “100 Women in Impact” by Real Leaders, 2021. Named among “Top 50 Women in Wealth” by AdvisorOne, one of the “Purpose Economy 100,” the “Good 100” and one of 50 “Conscious Capitalists” who are “Transforming Wall Street.” Named by Worth Magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020: 50 Women Changing the World.” Received Babson College’s 2019 Lewis Institute Centennial Social Innovator Award. Honored by UN Women of NY Metro as a “Champion of Change,” 2017.