Todd Cort
Senior Lecturer in Sustainability; Faculty Director of Sustainability Program, MBA for Executives; Faculty Co-Director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment
Dr. Cort works at the intersection of sustainability and investor value. Over the course of 20 years, in consulting and academia, he has applied a scientific and economic lens to corporate social and environmental responsibility (or sustainability) in order to identify the tools, mechanisms, metrics and indicators that create the greatest value for investors, businesses and society. Todd has worked extensively with companies and investors across industrial sectors. His experience ranges from ‘on the ground’ implementation of sustainability programs to corporate level communication and investor strategy development. He has also worked extensively on integrated programs to meet regulatory requirements while promoting awareness and understanding of sustainability priorities through communications and engagement with communities, regulators, policy makers and internal stakeholders.
Todd has a courtesy appointment at the Yale School of the Environment. He serves as Faculty Co-Director for the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) and the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF). He serves on a variety of advisory boards including the JUST Capital Scientific Advisory Board and the PRIME Coalition Academic Advisory Committee and Merck Sustainability Advisory Committee. He is also currently Board Chair for Save the Sound, a regional environmental non-profit serving communities around Long Island Sound.
Education
- PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000
- MS, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1997
- BS, University of California, San Diego, 1993
Articles
The evolving climate change investing strategies of asset owners
ESG Standards: Looming Challenges and Pathways Forward
A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
Incentivizing the Direction of Multi-Capital Toward Inclusive Capitalism
Achievements
- F.K. Weyerhauser Memorial Fund Grant for Interdisciplinary Research in Business and the Environment to study Data-Driven Green Bond Standards, 2017
California Professional Civil Engineer, 2005
Lead Certified Sustainability Assurance Practitioner, 2012