{"id":25497,"date":"2026-05-13T15:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=25497"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:26:28","slug":"jena-santi","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/profile\/jena-santi\/","title":{"rendered":"Jena Santi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jena Santi, <span>a 2026 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a PhD student in Accounting at Boston University&#8217;s Questrom School of Business. Her research lies at the intersection of financial accounting, corporate disclosure, and institutional investor behavior, with a focus on how informational, incentive, and political frictions shape asset managers&#8217; influence on corporate outcomes. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a researcher and served as an advisor to the Portuguese government, contributing to fiscal policy design and the evaluation of public policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the IGS Summer Fellowship, Jena\u2019s research will examine whether political pressure induces a divergence between asset managers\u2019 visible ESG signals and their underlying portfolio holdings. Exploiting the enactment of Texas Senate Bill 13 as a quasi-natural experiment, she will investigate whether funds with exposure to Texas state pension systems reduce observable ESG engagement\u2014such as support for shareholder proposals and ESG-related fund labeling\u2014while maintaining ESG-aligned portfolios.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her faculty advisor is <span>Edward Riedl<\/span> (J<span>ohn F. Smith Professor of Management, and Professor of Accounting, Questrom School of Business<\/span>) and her project is titled &#8220;<span>The ESG Engagement Gap: When Political Pressure Reshapes the Talk but Not the Walk,<\/span>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26067,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25499,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25497\/revisions\/25499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}