Robert Eccles is a leading authority on how companies and investors can create sustainable strategies through the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in resource allocation decisions. The focus of his work is on how the capital markets can contribute to ensuring a sustainable society for generations to come.<\/p>\n
Currently Eccles is a Visiting Professor of Management Practice at the Said Business School, University of Oxford where he is engaged in research projects focused on corporate purpose, corporate reporting, engagement and stewardship, and private equity. Eccles has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and was a Berkeley Social Impact Fellow at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley. He was a Professor at Harvard Business School and received tenure in 1989.<\/p>\n
Eccles is an Eminent Academic Advisor to BCG on Global ESG Integration and Reporting. He is also the first Chair of KKR\u2019s \u201cSustainability Expert Advisory Council.\u201d He was the founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and was one of the founders of the International Integrated Reporting Council. In 2011, Dr. Eccles was selected as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior \u2013 2012 for his extensive, positive contribution to building trust in business. In 2013, he was named the first non-accountant Honorary Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), one of only nine since 1999. In 2018 he was named by Barron\u2019s as one of the top 20 influencers in ESG investing and cited for being an \u201cESG research trailblazer.\u201d Also, in 2018 he received \u201cThe CSR Lifetime Achievement Award\u201d at \u201cThe 8th International Conference on Sustainability & Responsibility\u201d in Cologne, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22474,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2101\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}