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  David Abel

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor of the Practice, Journalism, College of Communication

  David Abel, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker. Abel has covered war, coups, terrorism, natural disasters, a pandemic, poverty, climate change, and much more. He has been a writer for many years at The Boston Globe, where for the past decade he has […]
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  Amira Aker

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health

  Amira Aker, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an environmental epidemiologist who uses interdisciplinary approaches to examine the health risks of emerging environmental contaminants. Aker's community-based participatory research focuses on the impacts of environmental contamination on Indigenous communities, and Aker also investigates health outcomes associated with living near oil […]
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  Michelle Amazeen

  Core Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor of Mass Communication and Associate Dean of Research, College of Communication

  Dr. Michelle A. Amazeen, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor of Mass Communication, Associate Dean of Research, and Director of the Communication Research Center at the College of Communication. Amazeen’s research program examines mediated persuasion and misinformation, exploring the nature and persuasive effects of misinformation and […]
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  Nellie Amosi

  Postdoctoral Associate, IGS

  Nellie Amosi is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) specializing in the development of energy justice indicators for offshore wind energy projects. She earned her PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Connecticut, where her research focused on analyzing and mapping the impacts of extreme events on livelihood […]
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  Serrie Anderson

  Director of Finance and Administration, IGS

  Serrie Anderson is the Director of Finance and Administration for the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), joining the Institute in October 2023. In her role, Anderson is responsible for the Institute's financial management and budgeting, grant proposal submission and post-award support, overseeing office operations, and hiring/human resources activities. Anderson is a double Terrier, […]
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  Sarah Armitage

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Markets, Public Policy, and Law, Questrom School of Business

  Sarah Armitage, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Assistant Professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. She received her PhD from Harvard University, with a disciplinary focus on environmental economics, industrial organization, and public finance. During the 2022-2023 academic year, Armitage was an Economist Fellow at the […]
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  Bamidele Aroboto

  Graduate Student Summer Fellow, IGS; Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

  Bamidele Aroboto, a 2025 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering. Aroboto's research integrates data science, machine learning, and materials science to accelerate the design of advanced materials for energy generation and storage, with a particular emphasis on […]
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  Muhammad Asif

  Visiting Researcher, IGS; Professor of Architectural Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)

  Muhammad Asif, a Visiting Researcher at Boston University’s Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Architectural Engineering at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia. Prior to joining KFUPM, he was a faculty member at various European universities for 12 years. He is a Fellow of the Energy […]
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  Elizabeth A. Barnes

  Core Faculty, IGS; Dalton Family Chair in Environmental Data Science & Sustainability; Professor, Computing & Data Sciences, Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences; Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  Dr. Elizabeth (Libby) Barnes, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is the incoming* Dalton Family Chair in Environmental Data Science & Sustainability and Professor of Computing & Data Sciences and of Earth & Environment at Boston University. Her group's research focuses on understanding Earth system variability, predictability, and change across time […]
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  Soumendra Basu

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Associate Division Head, Materials Science & Engineering, College of Engineering

  Soumendra Basu, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Professor and Associate Division Head of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Boston University’s College of Engineering. Basu focuses his research interests on solid oxide fuel cells, metal/metal oxide systems for grid-level energy storage, green processing for […]
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  Megan Beauregard

  Advisory Board, IGS; General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Triple Oak Power

  Megan Beauregard, an advisory board member for the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Triple Oak Power. She was formerly Chief Legal Officer of Enel North America, Inc., responsible for all of Enel’s legal interests in the United States and Canada. Prior to Enel, Ms. Beauregard was an attorney […]
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  Marcus Bellamy

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Operations & Technology Management, Questrom School of Business

  Marcus A. Bellamy, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor of Operations and Technology Management at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. During his formative years at Boston University, he was the recipient of the Isabel Anderson Career Development Professorship. He is a business scholar focused […]
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  Jennifer Bhatnagar

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

  Jenny M. Bhatnagar, Affiliated Faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Boston University. Prior to joining Boston University in 2014, she was a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota and Stanford University. Dr. Bhatnagar is a […]
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  Nina Brooks

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Global Health, School of Public Health

  Nina Brooks, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, a Faculty Affiliate with the BUSPH Center for Climate and Health, and a Core Faculty Member of the Human Capital Initiative at the Boston […]
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  Rachel Brulé

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Global Development Policy, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

  Rachel Brulé, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an associate professor of global development policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Core Faculty of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center. Her research combines experimental methods with innovative theory […]
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  Jonathan Buonocore

  Core Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Environmental Health, School of Public Health

  Dr. Jonathan Buonocore, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. Previously, he was a Research Scientist at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment. He received both his Sc.D. in Environmental […]
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  Gordon Burtch

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor, Information Systems, Questrom School of Business

  Gordon Burtch, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is broadly interested in the societal consequences of technology. His recent work has considered 1) the consequences of EV charging station placement for retailer foot traffic and demand and 2) the factors that influence the geographic placement of Data Centers and the […]
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  Peter Buston

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Natural Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences

  Peter Buston, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a marine evolutionary ecologist studying multiple aspects of the ecology, evolution, and behavior of coral reef fishes and, nowadays, how they are responding to the changing climate. Pronouns: he/him
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  Michael Caramanis

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

  Michael Caramanis, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Professor of Systems and Mechanical Engineering at Boston University (1982 – pres.), chaired the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy and the International Energy Charter’s Investment Group (20014-2008), was personally involved in power market implementations in England (1989-90) and Italy (2000-03), and […]
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  Dennis Carlberg

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; BU Chief Sustainability Officer and Associate Vice President for Climate Action

  Dennis Carlberg, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and Associate Vice President for Sustainability, is an architect with over 25 years of experience. In January 2009, Carlberg joined Boston University as its first Sustainability Director. Carlberg is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth […]
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  Deborah Carr

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Distinguished Professor of Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences; Director, Center for Innovation in Social Science

  Deborah Carr, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Sociology and inaugural director of the Center of Innovation in Social Science, established in September 2021. She is a life course sociologist who uses survey data and quantitative methods to study social factors linked with health and well-being […]
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  Christos Cassandras

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Distinguished Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering; Head, Division of Systems Engineering

  Christos G. Cassandras, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University. He is Head of the Division of Systems Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-founder of Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). He received a BS degree […]
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  Jesse Chan

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Accounting, Questrom School of Business

  Jesse Chan, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. His research interests include climate reporting, climate disclosures, corporate ESG initiatives, and how capital market intermediaries (analysts, auditors) interpret and process climate-related disclosures. Prior to becoming a doctoral student, […]
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  Cutler J. Cleveland

  Associate Director, IGS; Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  Cutler J. Cleveland, Associate Director with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Professor of Earth & Environment, conducts research and teaching focused on the connection among energy, climate change, and sustainability. He is the founder and co-leader of Visualizing Energy, an open-access, interdisciplinary science communication project that aims to increase actionable […]
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  Madison Condon

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Law, School of Law

  Madison Condon, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor of Law at Boston University, where she teaches Environmental Law, Corporations, and a seminar on climate risk and financial institutions. She researches and advocates in the area of climate change's impact on market risk, corporate governance, and regulation. Her scholarship […]
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  Rebecca Copeland

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Theology, School of Theology

  Rebecca Copeland, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), works in theology, ethics, and the intersection of religion and ecology, focusing primarily on Christian traditions. Her research and teaching interests revolve around the ways that classical Christian doctrines can be reconstructed in response to what we learn about the world through […]
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  Canan Gunes Corlu

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Administrative Sciences, Metropolitan College

  Canan Gunes Corlu, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an associate professor and the faculty coordinator for the Supply Chain Management programs at Boston University Metropolitan College (MET). Dr. Corlu's research falls under operations management data analytics, focusing on data challenges in decision-making. Her work focuses both on theory […]
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  Ayse Coskun

  Core Faculty, IGS; Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Interim Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development, College of Engineering; Director, Center for Information and Systems Engineering

  Dr. Ayse Coskun, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is currently Interim Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development in Boston University's College of Engineering and a full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. She is also the Director of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering. Coskun […]
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  Eric Cueny

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

  Eric Cueny, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department at Boston University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Wayne State University in 2012 and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2019. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston […]
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  Emiliano Dall’Anese

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering

  Emiliano Dall'Anese, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He received a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy, in 2011. He was with the University of Minnesota as […]
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  Nathaniel Dalton

  Advisory Board, IGS; Co-Founder and CEO of Sora Union; Co-Founder, Former President and CEO of Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE:AMG)

  Nathaniel Dalton, an advisory board member for the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Co-Founder and CEO of Sora Union. Additionally, he is Co-Founder and Former President and CEO of Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE:AMG). AMG is a global asset management company with roughly $775 Billion in assets under management across its Affiliate firms. […]
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  Sarah Davies

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

  Sarah Davies, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor of Biology at Boston University. She earned her MSc from the University of Calgary in 2009 and her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. In 2014, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the […]
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  Richard Deese

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Master Lecturer, Social Sciences, College of General Studies

  Richard Samuel Deese, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Senior Lecturer for the Division of Social Sciences in the College of General Studies and at Boston University. He grew up in Claremont, California, and studied history at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Oregon, and […]
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  David Demeritt

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  David Demeritt, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK. Demeritt is a geographer best known for his ability to bridge the discipline’s human-physical divide. His research focuses on environmental policy, in particular the management of flooding, wildfire and […]
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  Ethan Deyle

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Research Assistant Professor, Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

  Ethan Deyle, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is foremost a quantitative marine ecologist, exploring ecological questions on a spectrum from theoretical to imminently practical through a common language of nonlinear mathematics. His career as a scientist can be thought of as a dialectic between a love for abstract investigation […]
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  Mariette DiChristina

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor of the Practice and Dean, College of Communication

  Mariette DiChristina, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Dean of Boston University’s College of Communication and a professor of the practice in journalism. Before arriving at BU in 2019, DiChristina was the first female editor-in-chief and executive vice president of Scientific American, as well as executive vice president, Magazines […]
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  Michael Dietze

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  Michael Dietze, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), leads the Ecological Forecasting Laboratory, the mission of which is to better understand and predict ecological systems; he is the author of Ecological Forecasting. He is interested in the ways that iterative forecasts, which are continually confronted with new data, can improve […]
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  Ellen Dong

  Communications Assistant

  Ellen Dong is a Communications Assistant at the Institute for Global Sustainability. As an undergraduate journalism and data science major, Dong's interests focus on using data analysis tools to inform her reporting and writing. Throughout her time as a journalism student, she has covered arts, culture, science, and international news beats. Primarily, she is a […]
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  Chuanhua Duan

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

  Chuanhua Duan, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at Boston University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the […]
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  Alexander Dunlap

  Research Scientist, IGS

  Dr. Alexander Dunlap is a research scientist at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a visiting research fellow in the Global Development Studies department at the University of Helsinki. Dunlap has examined the political ecology of low-carbon technologies, extractive development, and police-military transformations in Mexico, Germany, Peru, France, Spain, and Portugal. Currently […]
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  Bahar Erbas

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Senior Lecturer, Economics, College of Arts & Sciences

  Dr. Bahar Erbas, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Boston University. Her primary research interests are environmental, resource and energy economics, and public economics. Her research particularly focuses on environmental regulations and climate change. Another strand of her work includes […]
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  Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy

  CELT Program Manager, IGS

  Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy is the Clean Energy and Environment Legacy Transition (CELT) Initiative Program Manager at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS). She has over 10 years of experience working on global environmental governance and the implementation of multilateral environmental agreements. Her work focused on the extent to which national governments advance their international […]
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  Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Research Associate Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management, School of Public Health

  Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an applied health services researcher with methodological expertise in qualitative, survey, and mixed methods. Her research focuses on children and families, health, the intersections of race/ethnicity and nativity, and the structural and policy factors underpinning these relationships. In particular, […]
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  M. Patricia Fabian

  Associate Director, IGS; Associate Professor, Environmental Health, School of Public Health

  M. Patricia Fabian, an Associate Director with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor of the Department of Environmental Health and faculty affiliate of the Hariri Institute for Computing and the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health. She conducts research and teaching focused on health and environmental health […]
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  Sergio Fagherazzi

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  Sergio Fagherazzi, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), studies geomorphology, hydrology, and coastal and marine geology. His research is oriented in three main directions: the morphological modeling of the continental shelf—formation and evolution of riverine networks during sea-level lowstands and subsequent channel filling during highstands; the study of the hydrodynamics […]
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  Talia Feldscher

  Research Fellow

  Talia Feldscher is a Research Fellow with the Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and the Center for Climate and Health (CCH). In this role, she splits her time between these two important programs at Boston University, supporting their spatial data projects, including the Clean Energy Legacy Transition (CELT) with IGS and the Gateway Exposome Coordinating […]
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  Sarah Finnie

  Founding Director, The 51 Percent Project

  Sarah Finnie is the Founding Director of The 51 Percent Project, a climate communication initiative at IGS. She previously held adjunct faculty appointments at Boston University’s College of Communication and at the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience & Environmental Health. Finnie is the founding partner of WeSpire, a B Corporation whose behavior-change platform is used […]
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  Tati Fontana

  Graduate Student Summer Fellow, IGS; Accounting, Questrom School of Business

  Tati Fontana, a 2025 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a PhD Candidate in Accounting at Questrom School of Business. Fontana holds a BA in International Studies from Universidad ORT Uruguay, and an MBA from IESE Business School (Spain). Her industry experience includes +3 years in Sales & […]
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  Susan Fournier

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Allen Questrom Professor, Marketing and Dean, Questrom School of Business

  Susan Fournier, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Allen Questrom Professor, Marketing and Dean of the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. She is the School’s first woman dean and its first academic dean in over 40 years. Susan is in her 28th year as a marketing academic, […]
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  Julia Frayer

  Advisory Board, IGS; Partner, London Economics International LLC

  Julia Frayer, an advisory board member for the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a graduate of Boston University and a partner at economic consulting firm London Economics International LLC. At the advice of her graduate advisor from Boston University, Frayer joined LEI in 1998 - right at the early days of broad […]