Tati Fontana

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 & Trading at Saxo Capital Markets (Uruguay) and Investment Banking at Bank of America (London). Her main research interests relate to disclosure choices and capital markets effects in contexts of cross-border regulation, climate risk, and misconduct.

Fontana’s dissertation explores whether US investors price in the risk inherent in the Brussels Effect—which reflects theoretical expectations that European Union (EU) regulations exert extraterritorial influence (Bradford, 2020)—by examining the capital market reaction to the approval of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

Fontana’s faculty advisor is Eddie Riedl (John F. Smith Professor, Accounting, Questrom School of Business and Associate Director, IGS) and her project is titled “US Capital Market Consequences of the Brussels Effect: Evidence from Sustainability Reporting.”